ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,958, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for making an electronic device with superconductor qubit(s) including at least one JoFET" was invented by Cyrille Le Royer (Grenoble, France), Fabrice Nemouchi (Grenoble, France), Nicolas Posseme (Grenoble, France), Sebastien Kerdiles (Grenoble, France) and Francois Lefloch (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for making a device with superconductor qubit(s) including at least one JoFET formed by the following steps of: making, over a semiconductor layer, a protective dielectric portion arrange...