ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,234, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ANYON SYSTEMS INC. (Dorval, Canada).
"Method for fabricating tunnel junctions" was invented by Alireza Najafi-Yazdi (Vaudreuil-Dorion, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described herein a method for fabricating a tunnel junction. The method comprises coating a substrate with an inorganic resist layer and forming support pillars in the resist layer; fabricating a mask on the resist layer from a first inorganic material, the mask having at least one opening; removing the resist layer from beneath the mask, leaving behind the support pillars supporting the mask above the substrate; pe...