ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,501, issued on July 29, was assigned to 1372934 B.C. LTD. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Kinetic inductance devices, methods for fabricating kinetic inductance devices, and articles employing the same" was invented by Loren J. Swenson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Superconducting integrated circuits and methods of forming these circuits are discussed. One superconducting integrated circuit has a substrate and a control device formed by a layer of high kinetic inductance material overlying the substrate. The control device has a loop of material, electrical connections between the loop of material and a power line, a coupling ...