US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 25 for "Majorana-based qubits in 3D topological insulator flakes" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,906, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Majorana-based qubits in 3D topological insulator flakes" was invented by Dmitry Pikulin (Redmond, Wash.) and Roman Lutchyn (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure includes qubit architectures and qubit elements of a quantum processor. A superconductor region overlaps a three-dimensional topological insulator layer. A vortex region extends through the superconductor region to the three-dimensional topological insulator layer. A peripheral portion of the vortex region is located on an edge o...