US Patent Issued to IonQ on July 22 for "Methods and apparatuses for barium states preparations for quantum operations" (Maryland, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,414, issued on July 22, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Methods and apparatuses for barium states preparations for quantum operations" was invented by Michael Lurie Goldman (University Park, Md.), Adam Daniel West (Bowie, Md.), Hermann Uys (Annapolis, Md.) and Peter Lukas Wilhelm Maunz (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system is provided for operating a quantum information processing (QIP) system, including a dual-space, single-species architecture for trapped-ion quantum information processing. An exemplary method of preparing the ions include i) applying a first optical beam to the plura...