US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on June 24 for "Vertical silicon Josephson Junction device for qubit applications" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,732, issued on June 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vertical silicon Josephson Junction device for qubit applications" was invented by Steven J. Holmes (Ossining, N.Y.), Devendra K. Sadana (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Oleg Gluschenkov (Tannersville, N.Y.) and Stephen W. Bedell (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical Josephson Junction (JJ) qubit device that is fabricated from crystalline silicon material is provided. The JJ device has a substrate of epitaxial silicon, a lower superconducting electrode that is a superconducting region of the epitaxial silicon and an upper ...