US Patent Issued to IonQ on July 15 for "Vibration mitigation with optical folding" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,307, issued on July 15, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Vibration mitigation with optical folding" was invented by Jason Madjdi Amini (Takoma Park, Md.), Kai Makoto Hudek (Hyattsville, Md.) 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. Coherent optical manipulations in such QIP systems may require interferometric stability between the incident laser beams and the atomic-based qubit (or other type of qubit) being addressed. ...