ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,070, issued on April 1, was assigned to PSIQUANTUM CORP. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Superconducting field-programmable gate array" was invented by Faraz Najafi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for operating superconducting circuitry. In one aspect, a programmable circuit includes a configurable superconducting component and control circuitry coupled to the configurable superconducting component. The superconducting component includes an input terminal, an output terminal, and a plurality of gate terminals. The control circuitry is coupled to the su...