US Patent Issued to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE on May 26 for "Superconducting opto-electronic transmitter circuit" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,563, issued on May 26, was assigned to GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE (Gaithersburg, Md.).

"Superconducting opto-electronic transmitter circuit" was invented by Sonia Mary Buckley (Boulder, Colo.), Adam Nykoruk McCaughan (Denver) and Jeffrey Michael Shainline (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention related to a neuromimetic circuit including a transmitter circuit to receive the threshold signal from a superconducting optoelectronic neuron and convert the small current pulse to a voltage pulse sufficient to produce light from a semicond...