ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,359, issued on May 26, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG (Villach, Austria).

"Capacitive coupling compensation for direct current electrodes in ion traps" was invented by Jens Repp (Markt Schwaben, Germany), Yves Colombe (Villach, Austria), Wolfgang Furtner (Unterhaching, Germany) and Michael Sieberer (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion trap system and method of using an ion trap system, the system including a substrate, a radio frequency (RF) source configured to provide an RF signal, an RF electrode disposed in the substrate and connected to the RF source, a direct current (DC) source configured to pr...