US Patent Issued to Quantinuum on July 28 for "Laser cooling atomic objects with phonon pumping" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,051, issued on July 28, was assigned to Quantinuum LLC (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Laser cooling atomic objects with phonon pumping" was invented by Gabriel Price (Broomfield, Colo.), Brian Vincent Estey (Louisville, Colo.), William Cody Burton (Northglenn, Colo.), David Hayes (Broomfield, Colo.) and Michael Feig (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a quantum gate operation in an ion trap quantum computing system includes identifying one or more error mechanisms that cause a quantum computational error in a quantum gate operation on a first trapped ion of an ion chain comprising a plurality of trapped ions, wherein...