US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 22 for "Quantum devices formed from a single superconducting wire having a configurable ground connection" (Canadian, Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,344, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Quantum devices formed from a single superconducting wire having a configurable ground connection" was invented by Christina Paulsen Knapp (Goleta, Calif.), Roman Bela Bauer (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Torsten Karzig (Redwood City, Calif.), Jonne Verneri Koski (The Hague, Netherlands), Roman Mykolayovych Lutchyn (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Dmitry Pikulin (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Quantum devices formed from a single superconducting wire having a configurable ground connection are described. An example quantum device, con...