US Patent Issued to Rigetti on April 8 for "Heat switches for controlling a flow of heat between thermal stages of a cryostat" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,592, issued on April 8, was assigned to Rigetti & Co LLC (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Heat switches for controlling a flow of heat between thermal stages of a cryostat" was invented by Jean-Philip Paquette (Berkeley, Calif.) and Damon Stuart Russell (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Heat switches are presented herein for controlling a flow of heat between thermal stages of a cryostat. In one aspect, a heat switch for a cryostat includes a thermal linkage configured to simultaneously contact a first thermal stage and a second thermal stage of the cryostat and define a thermal pathway therebetween. The thermal linkage includes a...