US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Feb. 10 for "Device with a detection structure with coulomb blockade superimposed on a quantum dot" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,355, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Device with a detection structure with coulomb blockade superimposed on a quantum dot" was invented by Benoit Bertrand (Grenoble, France) and Pierre-Andre Mortemousque (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum device formed from a substrate, the substrate being covered with a semiconductor region forming a quantum dot, and a detection structure with a Coulomb blockade for detecting a state of charge of the quantum dot, the detection structure with the Coulomb blockade including a detection island disposed ...