ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,530, issued on June 24, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Scalable and programmable coherent waveform generators" was invented by Joel Zvi Apisdorf (Reston, Va.), James Michael Williams (Annapolis, Md.), Phillip Douglas Solomon (Washington) and 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 system with scalable and programmable coherent waveform generators. A network and digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) cards used by the network are described where each DAC card has a clock divider/replicator device with an input SYNC pin, a digital logic component, an...