ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,912, issued on June 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Nanoribbon-based quantum dot devices" was invented by Nicole K. Thomas (Portland, Ore.), Payam Amin (Portland, Ore.), Ravi Pillarisetty (Portland, Ore.), Hubert C. George (Portland, Ore.) and James S. Clarke (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quantum dot devices and related methods and systems that use semiconductor nanoribbons arranged in a grid where a plurality of first nanoribbons, substantially parallel to one another, intersect a plurality of second nanoribbons, also substantially parallel to one another but at an angle with respect to the f...