US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on May 12 for "Methods and systems for quantum transducers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,379, issued on May 12, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for quantum transducers" was invented by Mohammad Mirhosseini (Pasadena, Calif.), Alkim Bozkurt (Pasadena, Calif.), Han Zhao (Pasadena, Calif.) and Chaitali Joshi (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for transducing and storing qubit signals are provided. The system includes a voltage source, a substrate, and a membrane suspended over the substrate. A phononic crystal oscillator is disposed in a first region of the membrane. The phononic crystal oscillator includes a capacitor having a movi...