US Patent Issued to IONQ on Oct. 14 for "Quantum entanglement distribution service" (Massachusetts, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,874, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.).

"Quantum entanglement distribution service" was invented by Mihir Keshav Bhaskar (Cambridge, Mass.), Bartholomeus Johannes Machielse (Somerville, Mass.), David Sarkis Levonian (Cambridge, Mass.), Antia Lamas Linares (Austin, Texas) and Oskar Jon Painter (Sierra Madre, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing quantum entanglement as a service are described. Intermediate nodes which may be located in trusted or trustless locations are used to distribute quantum entanglement to endpoints, such as endpoints of customers of a quantum enta...