ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,716, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Parametric traveling wave amplifier for qubits" was invented by Theodore Charles White (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Anthony Edward Megrant (Goleta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parametric traveling wave amplifier (200) is disclosed in which the amplifiers include: a co-planar waveguide, in which the co-planar waveguide includes at least one Josephson junction (210) interrupting a center trace (204) of the co-planar waveguide; and at least one shunt capacitor coupled to the co-planar waveguide, in which each shunt capacitor of the at least one shunt...