# Microsoft Technology Licensing — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Microsoft Technology Licensing has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Quantum Computers Use Special Devices to Control Qubits](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9256834/quantum-computers-having-partial-interferometric-quantum-gates) — granted 2016
  This patent describes a way for quantum computers to control special quantum bits, called topological qubits, using a "partial interferometric device" to perform specific operations.

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