ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,524, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Thermal transition filter for a superconducting circuit system" was invented by Aaron Christopher Lee (Hyattsville, Md.), Anthony Joseph Przybysz (Linthicum, Md.), James R. Medford (Columbia, Md.) and John X. Przybysz (Severna Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example includes a superconducting circuit system. The system includes at least one bias input configured to provide a bias current to a superconducting device via at least one superconducting device bias line coupled to the superconducting device during operation of the superc...