US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 7 for "Electro-optomechanical quantum transduction" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,444, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Electro-optomechanical quantum transduction" was invented by Masao Tokunari (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryan Daniel Schilling (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for creating an SiGe/Si electro-optomechanical quantum transducer, comprising an SiGe/Si optical ring resonator and capacitor, that can be associated with a qubit are presented. The optical resonator, comprising an SiGe optical waveguide and a strained silicon membrane, can be formed and disposed over a substrate. The strained silicon membrane can have a photoelastic coupli...