G21K 1/20
Arrangements for handling particles or ionising radiation: for confining charged particles or
Official title: for confining charged particles or handling confined charged particles, e.g. ion traps
G21K1/20 (Arrangements for handling particles or ionising radiation: for confining charged particles or) appears on 96 US grants and 151 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21K- Granted patents
- 96
- Published applications
- 151
- Assignees
- 70
- Inventors
- 337
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2003 | 4 | 1 |
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| 2016 | 3 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2 | 3 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 5 | 1 |
| 2020 | 4 | 6 |
| 2021 | 1 | 4 |
| 2022 | 9 | 7 |
| 2023 | 5 | 19 |
| 2024 | 6 | 28 |
| 2025 | 16 | 32 |
| 2026 | 8 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Photonic integrated beamlines for 3D magneto-optical trap18 Aug 2026US 12,712,094 B2The Regents of the University of California
- Systems and methods for beam shaping for large aspect ratio with a single cylindrical lens4 Aug 2026US 12,700,520 B2IonQ, Inc.
- Systems and methods for assembling electron spin and charge to possess properties of a magnetic monopole30 Jun 2026US 12,671,007 B2The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
- Device for controlling an ion, method for forming the same, and method for controlling the same16 Jun 2026US 12,658,337 B2Nanyang Technological University
- Two-stage ablation loading for quantum information processing (QIP) systems2 Jun 2026US 12,645,970 B2IonQ, Inc.
- Confinement assembly ground plane for radio frequency (rf) field control8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311907 A1Quantinuum LLC
- Method for manufacturing an electrode structure for an ion trap and method for manufacturing an electrode arrangement for a 3-dimensional ion trap8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314275 A1Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
- Composite optical bench1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301987 A1Quantinuum LLC
- Systems and methods for assembling electron spin and charge to possess properties of a magnetic monopole1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301988 A1University of Pittsburgh—Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Atomic Object Confinement Apparatus with Damascene Surface Electrodes17 Sep 2026US 2026/0279614 A1Quantinuum LLC
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for laser-controlled proton beam radiology220US 5,760,395 AUniversities Research Assoc., Inc. · 1998
- Ion processing: control and analysis118US 5,206,506 A1993
- Methods to clean a surface, a device manufacturing method, a cleaning assembly, cleaning apparatus, and lithographic apparatus54US 7,628,865 B2ASML Netherlands B. V. · 2009
- Systems and devices for photoelectrophoretic transport and hybridization of oligonucleotides45US 6,706,473 B1Nanogen, Inc. · 2004
- Method for generating a plasma wave to accelerate electrons41US 5,637,966 AThe Regents of the University of Michigan · 1997