ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,956, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Active circulator and quantum computer system with active circulator" was invented by Taehwan Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinhyoun Kang (Sejong-si, South Korea), Hyeokshin Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeho Shin (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Jaehyeong Lee (Gwacheon-si, South Korea), Insu Jeon (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungho Han (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active circulator includes: an active filter; and a power divider serially connected to the active filter, wherein three or more combinations of the active filte...