US Patent Issued to IONQ on Oct. 7 for "Noise reduced circuits for trapped-ion quantum computers" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,224, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.).

"Noise reduced circuits for trapped-ion quantum computers" was invented by Omar Shehab (Hyattsville, Md.) and Isaac Hyun Kim (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are generally related to a method and a system for performing a computation using a hybrid quantum-classical computing system, and, more specifically, to providing an approximate solution to an optimization problem using a hybrid quantum-classical computing system that includes a group of trapped ions. A hybrid quantum-classical computing system that is able to pro...