US Patent Issued to IONQ on Dec. 2 for "Universal gate pulse for two-qubit gates on a trapped-ion quantum computer" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,274, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.).

"Universal gate pulse for two-qubit gates on a trapped-ion quantum computer" was invented by Reinhold Blumel (Middletown, Conn.), Nikodem Grzesiak (Morges, Switzerland), Ming Li (Silver Spring, Md.), Andrii Maksymov (Hyattsville, Md.) and Yunseong Nam (North Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing at least a portion of a computational process includes computing a pulse function of a pulse to be applied to a first pair of trapped ions in a first ion chain based on a phase-space condition, wherein the phase-space condition is derived using...