US Patent Issued to IonQ on Sept. 22 for "Subspace leakage postselection via metastable manifold shelving" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,648, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Subspace leakage postselection via metastable manifold shelving" was invented by Ismail Volkan Inlek (Kensington, Md.) and Michael Lurie Goldman (University Park, Md.).

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 (QIP) systems, including trapped-ion QIP systems. A technique is described in which it is possible to detect at the end of a computational sequence whether an ion has undergone a transition to a state outside a com...