ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,306, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"T-joint connector for quantum computing systems" was invented by John Martinis (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Bob Benjamin Buckley (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Xiaojun Trent Huang (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A T-joint connector can be useful for connecting one or more flex circuit boards to quantum hardware including one or more qubits. The T-joint connector can include one or more flex circuit boards. Each of the one or more flex circuit boards can include one or more signal lines and one or more spring interconnects including a supercond...