US Patent Issued to IonQ, Duke University on Nov. 25 for "Quantum computer based on manipulation of ion chains" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,644, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Quantum computer based on manipulation of ion chains" was invented by Jungsang Kim (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Jonathan Albert Mizrahi (Silver Spring, Md.), Jason Madjdi Amini (Takoma Park, Md.), Kenneth Wright (Berwyn Heights, Md.), Neal Pisenti (Laurel, Md.), Hermann Uys (Annapolis, Md.), Ming Li (Takoma Park, Md.), Michael Lurie Goldman (Annapolis, Md.), Jeremy Matthew Sage (Acton, Mass.), Kai Makoto Hudek (Hyattsville, Md.), Yunseong Nam (North Bethesda, Md.), Nikodem Grzesiak (Morges, Switzerland) and Reinhold Blumel (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by ...