US Patent Issued to IonQ on Dec. 2 for "Parallel sideband cooling of multiple trapped-ion motional modes with deflectors" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,271, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Parallel sideband cooling of multiple trapped-ion motional modes with deflectors" was invented by Jeremy Matthew Sage (Acton, Mass.) and Kai Makoto Hudek (Hyattsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to parallel sideband cooling of multiple trapped-ion motional modes with deflectors (e.g., acousto-optic deflectors or AODs) in quantum information processing (QIP) systems. A method and a system are described in which for an ion chain a first group of ions (e.g., middle section of the ion chain) and a second group ...