ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,275, issued on June 24, was assigned to OXFORD IONICS Ltd. (Begbroke, Great Britain).
"Method for manipulating charged particles" was invented by Tom Harty (Begbroke, Great Britain), Chris Ballance (Begbroke, Great Britain) and Jochen Wolf (Begbroke, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented, which includes trapping a charged particle at a first position using an electromagnetic trap and providing a static magnetic field at the first position such that a qubit transition of the charged particle is defined, and providing, using an entangling electrode, an oscillating magnetic field. The oscillating magnetic fi...