US Patent Issued to IonQ on July 1 for "Vibrationally isolated cryogenic shield for local high-quality vacuum" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,247, issued on July 1, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Vibrationally isolated cryogenic shield for local high-quality vacuum" was invented by Jason Madjdi Amini (Takoma Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes various aspects of a vibrationally isolated cryogenic shield for local high-quality vacuum. More specifically, the disclosure describes a cryogenic vacuum system replicated in a small volume in a mostly room temperature ultra-high vacuum (UHV) system by capping the volume with a suspended cryogenic cold finger coated with a high surface area sorption material to produce a localized extrem...