US Patent Issued to Universal Quantum on Aug. 11 for "Methods and systems for implementing digital to analogue converters in quantum computers" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,872, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Universal Quantum Ltd (Brighton, Great Britain).

"Methods and systems for implementing digital to analogue converters in quantum computers" was invented by Iain Mcintosh Hunter (Brighton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an trapped ion processor comprising a DAC chamber, an ASIC, a digital control line between the DAC chamber and the ASIC and an analogue control line between the DAC chamber and the ASIC. The ASIC comprises a plurality of channels, each channel comprising a DC electrode, a first analogue memory cell and a second analogue memory cell. The DAC chamber...