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The claim conflates the invention of quantum error correction (QEC) with one later QEC construction, the toric code.

Here is the chronology from primary/official sources:

1. QEC already existed by 1995. Peter Shor and A. R. Calderbank's paper “Good Quantum Error-Correcting Codes Exist” was submitted on December 30, 1995. The arXiv abstract explicitly defines a quantum error-correcting code, showing the field was already established before 1997.
2. Kitaev’s toric code came later, in 1997. IBM Quantum’s documentation states that “the toric code … was discovered by Alexei Kitaev in 1997.”

So the toric code is an important example/family of QEC codes, but it is not when QEC was invented. Saying “QEC was then invented (toric code by Kitaev)” reverses that history by roughly two years.