ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,439, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Inductor tuning in superconducting circuits" was invented by Paige Frederick (Seattle), Kenneth Reneris (Kirkland, Wash.), Matus Lipka (Kirkland, Wash.), Jason Lee (Savannah, Ga.) and Jamie Kuesel (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods to determine an inductance for each of a plurality of inductors of a superconducting circuit. The plurality of inductors are routed between a plurality of superconducting devices. An amount of coupled flux between inductors of the plural...