ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,871, issued on July 8, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Nanowire hotspot controllable and tunable coupling of superconducting qubits" was invented by Khalil Harrabi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first superconducting device includes two first adjacent superconducting qubits and a superconducting loop disposed between and inductively coupled to the two first adjacent superconducting qubits. The superconducting loop includes a first hotspot nanowire that is in a superconducting state when a bias current is less than a critical current and in a high resisti...