US Patent Issued to IonQ, Duke University on June 17 for "Elliptical beam design using cylindrical optics" (Maryland, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,460, issued on June 17, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Elliptical beam design using cylindrical optics" was invented by Jungsang Kim (Chapel Hill, N.C.), David Wong-Campos (Hyattsville, Md.) and Kai Hudek (Hyattsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes various aspects of techniques for elliptical beam design using cylindrical optics that may be used in different applications, including in quantum information processing (QIP) systems. In an aspect, the disclosure describes an optical system having a first optical component having a first focal length, a seco...