US Patent Issued to IonQ on April 29 for "Methods and apparatuses for electromagnetically-induced transparency cooling in an isotope with a nuclear spin of 3/2 or greater" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,133, issued on April 29, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Methods and apparatuses for electromagnetically-induced transparency cooling in an isotope with a nuclear spin of 3/2 or greater" was invented by Michael Lurie Goldman (University Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure may include a method and/or a system for identifying an ion chain having a plurality of trapped ions, selecting at least two non-consecutive trapped ions in the ion chain for implementing a qubit, applying at least a first Raman beam to shuttle at least one neighbor ion of the at least two non-consecutive trapped...