US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on Aug. 18 for "Device for controlling trapped ions with an electrode layer of low surface roughness" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,712,172, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Device for controlling trapped ions with an electrode layer of low surface roughness" was invented by Clemens Rossler (Villach, Austria), Fabian Anmasser (Spittal an der Drau, Austria), Eva-Maria Andrea Gritsch (Spittal an der Drau, Austria) and Christoph Gruber (Wernberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro-fabricated device for controlling trapped ions includes a substrate. A structured electrode layer is disposed over the substrate. The structured electrode layer forms a plurality of electrodes of an ion trap configured to trap...