US Patent Issued to IonQ on Oct. 21 for "Non-contact displacement measurement for cryogenic stabilization" (Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,051, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Non-contact displacement measurement for cryogenic stabilization" was invented by Sarah Margaret Kreikemeier (Washington) and Kai Makoto Hudek (Hyattsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for use in the implementation and/or operation of quantum information processing (QIP) systems, and more particularly, to the implementation and operation of a non-contact displacement measurement technique for cryogenic stabilization in QIP systems."

The patent was filed on Dec. 21, 2022, under Appli...