US Patent Issued to HRL Laboratories on Oct. 28 for "Ion trap for atomic clocks, mass spectrometry, atomic sensing, and quantum computing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,616, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to HRL Laboratories LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Ion trap for atomic clocks, mass spectrometry, atomic sensing, and quantum computing" was invented by Travis Autry (Calabasas, Calif.), Justin Christensen (Simi Valley, Calif.), Ian Counts (Santa Monica, Calif.), Zachary Chin (Lake Zurich, Calif.), Jennifer Ellis (Calabasas, Calif.), Christopher Roper (Oak Park, Calif.) and Danny Kim (Agoura Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed ion trap comprises a plurality of structurally continuous blades and a plurality of recessed control electrodes, wherein the plurality of structurally continu...