ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,674, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Double individual-addressing multi-beam Raman system" was invented by Neal C. Pisenti (Laurel, Md.), Kai Makoto Hudek (Hyattsville, Md.), Kenneth Wright (Berwyn Heights, Md.), Tan Liu (Frederick, Md.), David Angeley (Charlottesville, Va.), Nadir Shah (Reston, Va.) and Sarah Margaret Kreikemeier (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for use in the implementation and/or operation of quantum information processing (QIP) systems, and more particularly, to a double individual-addressing mul...