ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,558, issued on April 21, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Fast single-mode spectroscopy" was invented by Jason Hieu Van Nguyen (Hyattsville, Md.), Kevin Antony Landsman (Rockville, Md.), Hermann Uys (Annapolis, Md.), Shantanu Debnath (Lanham, Md.) 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 a fast single-mode spectroscopy technique that may be used in trapped-ion QIP systems. A method is de...