US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Dec. 30 for "Superconducting serial-to-parallel converter system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,839, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Superconducting serial-to-parallel converter system" was invented by James R. Medford (Columbia, Md.), Kurt Pleim (Halethorpe, Md.) and Sean Ashley Lindsay (Millersville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example includes a superconducting serial-to-parallel converter system. The system includes a plurality of serial-input-parallel-output (SIPO) cells arranged in a sequence between a first SIPO cell and a last SIPO cell. Each of the SIPO cells is configured to convert a plurality of serial superconducting bits of a serial data stream int...