ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,613, issued on May 26, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Automation design for achieving long term stable operation of quantum computers" was invented by Shantanu Debnath (Landham, Md.), Aleksey Blinov (Evanston, Ill.), Coleman Collins (Chicago), Kevin Antony Landsman (Rockville, Md.), Jason Hieu Van Nguyen (Hyattsville, Md.), Hermann Uys (Annapolis, Md.), Kristin M. Beck (Livermore, Calif.), Peter Lukas Wilhelm Maunz (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Matthew Keesan (Keuka Park, N.Y.).

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 operati...