ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,101, issued on June 23, was assigned to UPSCALE QUANTUM SOLUTIONS INC..
"Method of reconfiguring particles in a grid of particle traps" was invented by Alexandre Cooper-Roy (Waterloo, Canada), Amer E. Mouawad (Beirut), Remy El Sabeh (Beirut), Barry Cimring (Waterloo, Canada) and Marc Bacvanski (Boston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The specification describes a method of reconfiguring particles in a grid of particle traps from an initial configuration to a target configuration, the grid of particle traps having target particle traps and surplus particle traps, the particles being movable along rows of the grid, or along columns of th...