New and pending patents reflect IonQ's leadership in quantum computing performance and scalability
Technical highlights include a new method for control and flexibility in gate operations and a unique low-error technique for controlling gate operations
IonQ (NYSE:IONQ), a leader in the quantum computing and networking industry, announced today the issuance of five new U.S. patents designed to deliver benefits across multiple industries and applications. With the pending acquisition of Qubitekk's 118 patents, IonQ will have a total of over 600 U.S. and international issued and pending patents, standing apart from similarly-sized quantum companies based on its strength of IP protection and extensive combination of patents across different verticals.
IonQ has made strategic technological and architectural choices to uniquely balance the core elements of commercial advantage – performance, scale, and enterprise-grade capabilities – and these patents represent leadership in all of those key areas. The new patents announced today build upon IonQ's technical achievements including quantum circuit optimization, improved gate operations, reduced noise, error mitigation techniques, and multi-beam improvements.
Patent details include:
Performance: These patents include novel methods to increase control, efficiency, and flexibility of quantum systems to drive better performance for customer applications.
Error Handling: This patent highlights IonQ's differentiating approaches to improving error correction and in turn, performance.
Scale: This patent highlights IonQ's scalable manufacturing and computing techniques which further their enterprise-grade capabilities.
US Patent No. 12,088,351, "Double Individual-Addressing Multi-Beam Raman System," issued on September 10, 2024. The patent recognizes IonQ's unique method for controlling the individual laser beams that are trapping its ion – both upon entry and exit. Whereas previous techniques offered control in only one direction, this new approach introduces a way to control the individual beams for each atom while requiring fewer laser beams overall – a critical hurdle to achieving scale.
US Patent No. 12,033,031, titled "Quantum Circuit Optimization," issued on July 9, 2024. The patent recognizes IonQ's development of an optimization tool that compiles quantum algorithm code to run as efficiently as possible on physical quantum hardware.
US Patent No. 12,056,573, titled "Amplitude, Frequency, and Phase Modulated Entangling Gates for Ion Trap Quantum Computers," issued on August 6, 2024. The patent recognizes IonQ's development of an efficient and effective way to control all features of laser beams that 'trap' ions in its systems. The technique provides maximum control and flexibility in how users conduct gate operations.
US Patent No. 12,086,691, titled"Techniques for Controlling Small Angle Mølmer-Sørensen Gates and for Handling Asymmetric Spam Errors," issued on September 10, 2024. The patent recognizes IonQ's unique low-error technique for controlling gate operations, specific to Mølmer-Sørensen gates.
US Patent No. 12,028,604, titled "Camera Server for Heterogeneous Cameras," issued on July 2, 2024. The patent recognizes IonQ's development of a global camera server that allows the use of different camera sets interchangeably across quantum systems when capturing snapshots of trapped ion, and subsequently provides a readout.
