US Patent Issued to IonQ, University of Maryland, College Park, Duke University on April 14 for "Quantum computer architecture based on multi-qubit gates" (North Carolina, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,605, issued on April 14, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.), University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Quantum computer architecture based on multi-qubit gates" was invented by Jungsang Kim (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Yunseong Nam (North Bethesda, Md.) and Christopher Monroe (Ellicott City, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes various aspects of a practical implementation of multi-qubit gate architecture. A method is described that includes enabling ions in the ion trap having three energy levels, enabling a low-heating rate motional mode (e.g., zig-zag m...