ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,948, issued on April 7, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for making a quantum device" was invented by Cyrille Le Royer (Grenoble, France), Francois Lefloch (Grenoble, France), Fabrice Nemouchi (Grenoble, France) and Nicolas Posseme (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a quantum device comprising forming a superconductive layer, forming a mask on the superconductive layer, the mask comprising masking patterns and at least two openings alternately in a direction, the at least two openings) being separated from one another by a separation d...