US Patent Issued to IonQ on Nov. 18 for "Multi-layer ion trap on shaped glass or dielectric substrate" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,102, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Multi-layer ion trap on shaped glass or dielectric substrate" was invented by Jason Madjdi Amini (Takoma Park, Md.), Jonathan Albert Mizrahi (Silver Spring, Md.), Jeremy Matthew Sage (Acton, Mass.) and James Walker Steere (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe devices trapping devices for use in quantum information processing (QIP) architectures, and more particularly, to the use and fabrication of a multi-layer ion trap on shaped glass or dielectric substrate. A method for fabricating the ion trap is describe...