ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,086, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Reconfigurable clockless single flux quantum logic circuitry" was invented by John Timmerwilke (Danbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises a clockless single flux quantum (SFQ) logic circuit comprising input and output stages and a configurable logic circuit which comprises at least one configurable logic gate that holds an internal state. The input stage comprises a signal input converter circuit which receives a two-level input signal and generates an SFQ pulse on each rising and falling edge of the two-level input s...