US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on June 17 for "Optically transparent surface gate for a qubit memory cell" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,438, issued on June 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Optically transparent surface gate for a qubit memory cell" was invented by Robert Willett (Warren, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A qubit memory cell having a thin, optically transparent, metal surface gate that laterally fits into the corresponding region of the memory cell, while not being in direct contact with the perimeter of the region. The surface gate may have apertures to accommodate therein the dot-like control electrodes of the qubit and enable the corresponding electrical overpass bridges to be connected to those dot-like control electr...