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Craig Gidney — 26 Patents

Google: 26 patents #683 of 22,993Top 3%
Goleta, CA: #44 of 1,303 inventorsTop 4%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Craig Gidney has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 2021 and the most recent in October 2025. Craig Gidney ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Craig Gidney in Goleta, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2021 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2025.peak 92021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 8 patents20232024: 5 patents20242025: 9 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12450514 Low overhead quantum computation using lattice surgery Austin Greig Fowler 2025-10-21
12417161 Patch and elided fidelity estimation Sergio Boixo Castrillo, Adam Zalcman 2025-09-16
12406201 Magic state injection into surface codes using hook error mechanisms 2025-09-02
12380353 Oblivious carry runway registers for performing piecewise additions 2025-08-05
12333382 Quantum circuit optimization using windowed quantum arithmetic 2025-06-17
12288130 Methods and apparatus for performing phase operations 2025-04-29
12242927 Magic state factory constructions for producing CCZ and T states Austin Greig Fowler 2025-03-04
12210502 Performing unitary iteration and indexed operations Ryan Babbush 2025-01-28
12198007 Measurement based uncomputation for quantum circuit optimization 2025-01-14
12182663 Quantum circuits with reduced T gate count 2024-12-31 $118,851,000
12175328 Efficient fault-tolerant trotter simulation of molecular hamiltonians Ryan Babbush, Ian David Kivlichan 2024-12-24 $142,724,000
11966814 Surface code computations using Auto-CCZ quantum states Austin Greig Fowler 2024-04-23 $109,442,000
11941488 Methods and apparatus for performing phase operations 2024-03-26 $93,619,000
11909392 Magic state factory constructions for producing CCZ and T states Austin Greig Fowler 2024-02-20 $78,256,000
11755942 Quantum circuits with reduced T gate count 2023-09-12 $80,406,000
11710063 Oblivious carry runway registers for performing piecewise additions 2023-07-25 $127,736,000
11675763 Performing unitary iteration and indexed operations Ryan Babbush 2023-06-13 $78,657,000
11636373 Measurement based uncomputation for quantum circuit optimization 2023-04-25 $100,293,000
11625637 Methods and apparatus for performing phase operations 2023-04-11 $98,654,000
11586969 Quantum circuit optimization using windowed quantum arithmetic 2023-02-21 $67,513,000
11568298 Surface code computations using auto-CCZ quantum states Austin Greig Fowler 2023-01-31 $74,974,000
11544616 Quantum circuits with reduced T gate count 2023-01-03 $55,420,000
11531923 Measurement based uncomputation for quantum circuit optimization 2022-12-20 $93,986,000
11475348 Oblivious carry runway registers for performing piecewise additions 2022-10-18 $56,365,000
11042813 Quantum circuits with reduced T gate count 2021-06-22 $103,865,000