ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,751, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Universal Quantum Ltd (Brighton, Great Britain).

"Relating to quantum computing" was invented by Richard North (Brighton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention there is provided an ion trap comprising a plurality of electrodes forming an ion trap, a plurality of DACs, each DAC being configured to control an electrode, a clock signal generator, configured to transmit a clock signal to each electrode, a multiplexer configured to stop or transmit the clock signal from the clock signal generator to one or more of the DACs and a clock signal controller configured to...