ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,181, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Ion trap chip and system" was invented by Dongyang Cao (Shenzhen, China), Jian Pan (Shenzhen, China), Yuping Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Yongjing Cai (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example ion trap chips and quantum computing methods are described. One example ion trap chip includes a plurality of first ion traps and a plurality of second ion traps. Each first ion trap is configured to store an operation ion, where two adjacent first ion traps form one ion trap group. Each second ion trap corresponds to one ion trap group. Each seco...