ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,507, issued on June 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Superconducting multi-way switches" was invented by Matthew Beck (Danbury, Conn.), Santino Carnevale (Stamford, Conn.) and Marco Turchetti (White Plains, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises a switch circuit and control lines. The switch circuit comprises a plurality of signal input/output ports, and a plurality of switch nodes, each switch node comprising a superconducting loop which comprises a plurality of Josephson junctions arranged in a ring configuration. The control lines are configured to selectively apply flux bi...