US Patent Issued to Intel on May 13 for "Quantum dot devices with multiple barrier gates between adjacent plunger gates" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,763, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Quantum dot devices with multiple barrier gates between adjacent plunger gates" was invented by Matthew Jon Curry (Beaverton, 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 with multiple barrier gates between adjacent plunger gates are disclosed. Multiple barrier gates between two adjacent plunger gates are coupled to respective signal sources and may be individually controlled by signals being applied to one or more of the multiple barrier gates to control electrostatics so that ...