US Patent Issued to IONQ on July 21 for "Alignment of adiabatic optical interfaces" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,672, issued on July 21, was assigned to IONQ INC. (College Park, Md.).

"Alignment of adiabatic optical interfaces" was invented by Bartholomeus Johannes Machielse (Somerville, Mass.), Beibei Zeng (Medford, Mass.), Chawina De-Eknamkul (Cambridge, Mass.), Denis Sukachev (Brookline, Mass.) and Daniel Riedel (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for aligning optical elements to form adiabatic couplings are disclosed. An alignment device includes a common platform and a plurality of electrically-controlled mounts affixed to the common platform. Individual fibers of a first set of fibers that are to be aligned...