US Patent Issued to IonQ on May 13 for "Methods and apparatuses for reducing phase noise" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,536, issued on May 13, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Methods and apparatuses for reducing phase noise" was invented by Michael Lurie Goldman (University Park, Md.), Adam Daniel West (Bowie, Md.), Jeremy Mathew Sage (Acton, Mass.) and Laird Nicholas Egan (Annapolis, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure may include a method and/or a system for identifying an ion chain having a plurality of trapped ions, selecting at least two non-consecutive trapped ions in the ion chain for implementing a qubit, applying at least a first Raman beam to shuttle at least one neighbor ion of the at least t...