ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,604, issued on March 25, was assigned to PSIQUANTUM CORP. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Superconducting logic components" was invented by Faraz Najafi (San Francisco) and Qiaodan Jin Stone (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example circuit includes a superconducting component having a plurality of narrow portions and a plurality of wide portions. The example circuit further includes a plurality of photon detector components, each photon detector component coupled to a corresponding narrow portion of the plurality of narrow portions and configured to provide an output that causes the corresponding narrow portion to transiti...