US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES on Aug. 26 for "Josephson transistor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,542, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris) and UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES (Saint Martin d'Heres, France).

"Josephson transistor" was invented by Fabrice Nemouchi (Grenoble, France), Frederic Gustavo (Grenoble, France), Francois Lefloch (Grenoble, France) and Tom Vethaak (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Josephson transistor, this transistor comprising a source and a drain each comprising an electric charge reservoir in electrical contact with a semiconductor layer. Each reservoir comprises a lower face and a side face both buried inside the semiconduc...