US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 10 for "Harmonic suppression in dispersion resonators for traveling wave parametric amplifiers" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,667, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Harmonic suppression in dispersion resonators for traveling wave parametric amplifiers" was invented by Ted Thorbeck (Elmsford, N.Y.) and Corrado P. Mancini (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier (TWPA) transmission line with improved bandwidth includes one or more unit cell. Each unit cell includes a capacitor to a ground and a Josephson junction in series configured to provide inductance and non-linearity. One or more dispersion resonator is coupled to the transmission line. The dispe...