ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,210, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for supporting a high thermal gradient between a qubit plane and a control system for the qubit plane using a superconducting rigid-flex circuit" was invented by Matthew David Turner (Carnation, Wash.), Craig Steven Ranta (Olympia, Wash.) and Kevin James Kramer (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for supporting a high thermal gradient between a qubit plane and a control system for the qubit plane are described. A system includes a qubit plane associated with a first rigid circuit portion o...