US Patent Issued to IonQ, Duke University on March 3 for "System and method for improved vacuum in compact packages" (North Carolina, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,990, issued on March 3, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"System and method for improved vacuum in compact packages" was invented by Jungsang Kim (Durham, N.C.) and Peter Lukas Wilhelm Maunz (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for use in the implementation and/or operation of quantum information processing (QIP) systems, and more particularly, to methods and systems for improving vacuum in compact room temperature packages. An exemplary method for preparing a vacuum chamber for a QIP system includes...