US Patent Issued to Google on May 19 for "Hybrid kinetic inductance devices for superconducting quantum computing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,641, issued on May 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hybrid kinetic inductance devices for superconducting quantum computing" was invented by Theodore Charles White (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Anthony Edward Megrant (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes: a substrate; a first superconductor layer on the substrate, the first superconductor layer having a first kinetic inductance; and a second superconductor layer on the first superconductor layer, the second superconductor layer having a second kinetic inductance that is lower than the first kinetic inductance, in which the second superc...