US Patent Issued to IONQ on April 29 for "Demodulation and smoothing of amplitude, frequency, and phase modulated pulses for optimal implementation of entangling gates in ion trap quantum computers" (Connecticut, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,128, issued on April 29, was assigned to IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.).

"Demodulation and smoothing of amplitude, frequency, and phase modulated pulses for optimal implementation of entangling gates in ion trap quantum computers" was invented by Reinhold Blumel (Middletown, Conn.), Nikodem Grzesiak (College Park, Md.) and Yunseong Nam (North Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are generally related to a method and a system for constructing and delivering a pulse to perform an entangling gate operation between two trapped ions during a quantum computation, and more specifically, to a method of demo...