US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 23 for "Anti-fuse and fuse structures for improving the functionality of qubit circuits" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,365, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Anti-fuse and fuse structures for improving the functionality of qubit circuits" was invented by Vivekananda P. Adiga (Ossining, N.Y.), Russell A. Budd (North Salem, N.Y.), Charles Thomas Rettner (San Jose, Calif.) and Stephen M. Gates (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting connecting system includes an anti-fuse structure. There is a first superconducting trace having a first segment that is cantilevered over a cavity a substrate. A second superconducting trace having a second segment is cantilevered over the cavity in ...