US Patent Issued to THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on May 27 for "Creating majorana zero modes in quantum anomalous hall insulator/superconductor heterostructures" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,759, issued on May 27, was assigned to THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Creating majorana zero modes in quantum anomalous hall insulator/superconductor heterostructures" was invented by Kam Tuen Law (Kowloon, Hong Kong), Yingming Xie (Sai Kung, Hong Kong) and Xuejian Gao (Sai Kung, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technologies described herein are generally directed to generating, detecting, and manipulating Majorana zero-energy modes which can be utilized to achieve the topological quantum computation, in accordance with one or more embodiments. One or more embodiments described i...