US Patent Issued to Quantinuum on July 15 for "Polarization insensitive state preparation of high nuclear spin ionic qubits" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,076, issued on July 15, was assigned to Quantinuum LLC (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Polarization insensitive state preparation of high nuclear spin ionic qubits" was invented by Anthony Ransford (Broomfield, Colo.), John Gaebler (Golden, Colo.), Fangzhao An (St. Louis Park, Minn.), James Hostetter (Eagan, Minn.), Andrew Schaffer (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Lucas Reid Sletten (Robbinsdale, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to initializing and/or performing state preparation for an atomic object. The controller controls first manipulation sources to provide first manipulation signals and second manipulation sources to provid...