US Patent Issued to IonQ on Dec. 23 for "Methods and apparatuses for stray field compensation normal to a surface electrode ion trap" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,369, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Methods and apparatuses for stray field compensation normal to a surface electrode ion trap" was invented by Hermann Uys (Annapolis, Md.), Michael Lurie Goldman (University Park, Md.), Adam Daniel West (Bowie, Md.) and Jonathan Albert Mizrahi (Silver Spring, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure may include a method and/or a system for applying, to one or more surface electrode trapped ions, a first electric field in a first direction, applying, to the one or more surface electrode trapped ions, a plurality of second electric fields...