US Patent Issued to IonQ on Sept. 23 for "Electrode fabrication and die shaping for metal-on-glass ion traps" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,344, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Electrode fabrication and die shaping for metal-on-glass ion traps" was invented by Jason Madjdi Amini (Takoma Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for the fabrication of electrodes and the shaping of glass dies or substrates are described to produce metal-on-glass ion traps. These ion traps may be configured to have open light access and high aspect trenches for the electrodes. For example, the glass substrate may be shaped to provide high numerical aperture (NA) light access by having angled cutouts, electrode structures with high aspect trench...