US Patent Issued to IonQ on Sept. 23 for "Methods and apparatuses for first order field insensitive qubits" (Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,345, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Methods and apparatuses for first order field insensitive qubits" was invented by Jeremy Matthew Sage (Acton, Mass.), Michael Lurie Goldman (University Park, Md.) and Laird Nicholas Egan (Annapolis, 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 biasing FOFI qubits including applying a magnetic field to one or more first order field insensitive (FOFI) qubits, wherein a first magnetic field sensitivity of the one or more FOFI qubits in a first state of a first manifold is substantially equal to a sec...