ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,819, issued on June 9, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).
"Technique for fabrication of a laser-ablation target using an epoxy matrix for sources of atoms and molecules" was invented by Jeremy Matthew Sage (Acton, Mass.), Daniel Zambrano (Washington), Jonathan Albert Mizrahi (Silver Spring, Md.), Michael Lurie Goldman (University Park, Md.), Marvin G. Warner (Richland, Wash.), Riane E. Stene (Richland, Wash.) and Chris Barrett (Aiken, S.C.).
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 ...