US Patent Issued to University of Maryland, College Park, IonQ on Sept. 15 for "Multi-qubit control with acousto-optic modulators" (Maryland, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,657, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.) and IonQ Inc. (College Park, Md.).

"Multi-qubit control with acousto-optic modulators" was invented by Shantanu Debnath (College Park, Md.), Norbert M. Linke (Stevenson, Md.), Christopher R. Monroe (Columbia, Md.) and Caroline Figgatt (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure describe techniques for controlling quantum states of ions in an ion chain for a quantum operation. For example, a method is described that includes providing, from a first direction, a global optical beam to the ions in the ion chain...