US Patent Issued to Quantinuum on July 22 for "Broadband sympathetic electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) cooling" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,413, issued on July 22, was assigned to Quantinuum LLC (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Broadband sympathetic electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) cooling" was invented by Colin Joseph Kennedy (Broomfield, Colo.) and Christopher Gilbreth (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An atomic object confined in a particular region of an atomic object confinement apparatus is cooled using an S-to-P-to-D EIT cooling operation. A controller associated with the atomic object confinement apparatus controls first and second manipulation sources to respectively provide first and second manipulation signals to the particular region. The f...