US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 28 for "Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices with a horizontally-confined channel and methods of forming the same" (Indiana, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,911, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices with a horizontally-confined channel and methods of forming the same" was invented by Geoffrey Charles Gardner (West Lafayette, Ind.), Sergei Vyatcheslavovich Gronin (West Lafayette, Ind.), Flavio Griggio (Seattle), Raymond Leonard Kallaher (West Lafayette, Ind.), Noah Seth Clay (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Michael James Manfra (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices with a horizontally-confined channel and methods of forming the same are descr...