US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on July 1 for "Device for controlling trapped ions and including a delta/sigma dac module" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,771, issued on July 1, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Device for controlling trapped ions and including a delta/sigma dac module" was invented by Michael Sieberer (Graz, Austria), Gerhard Maderbacher (Gleisdorf, Austria), Clemens Roessler (Villach, Austria), Christoph Sandner (Villach, Austria) and Herwig Wappis (Drobollach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for controlling trapped ions includes an ion trap, a plurality of field electrodes configured to control ions in the ion trap, and a controller chip. The controller chip includes at least one delta-sigma digital to analog conver...