ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,715, issued on April 8, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).
"Pulse generation" was invented by Vandiver Chaplin (Washington) and Jason Amini (Takoma Park, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for pulse generation. A classical computing device may receive a program source code including quantum operations. The program source code may be compiled into a compiled program including the one or more quantum operations. Pulse shapes that a pulse shape library indicates corresponds to each of the quantum operations may be determined. Pulse instructions based on the one or more pulse shapes that th...