US Patent Issued to IONQ on Sept. 30 for "Motional mode configuration for implementation of entangling gates in ion trap quantum computers" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,577, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.).

"Motional mode configuration for implementation of entangling gates in ion trap quantum computers" was invented by Ming Li (Silver Spring, Md.), Jason M. Amini (Takoma Park, Md.) and Yunseong Nam (North Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a computation using a quantum computer includes modulating motional mode structures of a plurality of trapped ions, each of the plurality of trapped ions having two frequency-separated states defining a qubit, computing a detuning frequency function and an amplitude function of a laser pulse to c...