US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Dec. 9 for "Josephson microwave switch with a single select line" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,777, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Josephson microwave switch with a single select line" was invented by Aurelius L. Graninger (Sykesville, Md.), Aaron A. Pesetski (Gambrills, Md.) and Robert E. Zimmerman (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting switch system includes a plurality of switch network circuits, each switch network circuit having a respective Josephson junction (JJ) coupled to a respective transmission line. The superconducting switch system furthermore includes a bias line coupled to each of the respective JJs such that a mutual inductive coupling...