US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on May 13 for "Superconducting passive transmission line (PTL) receiver system" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,234, issued on May 13, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Superconducting passive transmission line (PTL) receiver system" was invented by Domenic Nickolas Georgantas (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example includes a PTL receiver system. The system includes a receiver core that comprises an input Josephson junction and that receives an input pulse from a PTL. The system also includes an active bias circuit which generates a bias pulse based on a bias clock signal and provides the bias pulse to the receiver core. The bias pulse can have a pulse-width approximately one-half a period of t...