ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,659, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Oscillator and quantum computer" was invented by Akira Miyata (Tokyo), Katsumi Kikuchi (Tokyo), Suguru Watanabe (Tokyo), Takanori Nishi (Tokyo), Hideyuki Satou (Tokyo), Tomohiro Yamaji (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Yoshihito Hashimoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an oscillator and a quantum computer capable of suppressing an occupied area of a circuit. An oscillator (300) includes a resonator (100) including a plurality of loop circuits in which a first superconducting line (112a), a first Josephson junction (111a), a second superconducting line ...