ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,671, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rigetti & Co LLC (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Superconducting vias for routing electrical signals through substrates and their methods of manufacture" was invented by James Russell Renzas (San Mateo, Calif.), Jayss Daniel Marshall (Fair Oaks, Calif.), Cat-Vu Huu Bui (Fremont, Calif.), Mehrnoosh Vahidpour (El Cerrito, Calif.), William Austin O'Brien IV (Sylmar, Calif.), Andrew Joseph Bestwick (Berkeley, Calif.), Chad Tyler Rigetti (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Keith Matthew Jackson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a general aspect, a superconducting via for routing electrical signals thr...