ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,174, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ATOM COMPUTING INC. (Berkeley, Calif.).
"Scalable neutral atom based quantum computing" was invented by Jonathan King (Berkeley, Calif.) and Benjamin Bloom (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for performing non-classical computations. The methods and systems generally use a plurality of spatially distinct optical trapping sites to trap a plurality of atoms, one or more electromagnetic delivery units to apply electromagnetic energy to one or more atoms of the plurality to induce the atoms to adopt one or more superposition states of ...