US Patent Issued to IonQ on Oct. 7 for "Methods and apparatuses for AOD crosstalk mitigation" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,222, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Methods and apparatuses for AOD crosstalk mitigation" was invented by Ismail Volkan Inlek (Kensington, 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 two non-consecutive trapped ions from a ground state to a metastable state, and applying at least a second Raman...