US Patent Issued to QuEra Computing on Nov. 4 for "Methods and apparatus for arranging atoms in arrays" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,946, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QuEra Computing Inc. (Boston).

"Methods and apparatus for arranging atoms in arrays" was invented by Donggyu Kim (Boston), Dirk Englund (New York), Nathan Gemelke (Boston), Alexei Bylinskii (Boston) and Markus Greiner (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses methods and apparatus for arranging atoms in arrays. A system for arranging atoms within a 3-dimensional space includes an optical system (920) operable to produce a plurality of switchable optical traps (925) within the 3-dimensional space, a sensor (930) configured to detect atoms within the plurality of swit...