ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,387, issued on July 22, was assigned to Maybell Quantum Industries Inc. (Denver).
"Integrated dilution refrigerators" was invented by Corban I. Tillemann-Dick (Denver), Kyle J. Thompson (Boulder, Colo.) and Bryan J. Choo (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed refrigeration system is provided. The distributed refrigeration system comprises a pre-cooling system configured to be thermally coupled to two or more cryogenic devices and to provide a first cooling stage to the two or more cryogenic devices. The two or more cryogenic devices may be two or more of a dilution refrigerator, a low-temperature microscopy system, a ...