US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on Sept. 15 for "SFQ-based pulse-conserving logic gates" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,943, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"SFQ-based pulse-conserving logic gates" was invented by Quentin Paul Herr (Leuven, Belgium) and Anna Yurievna Herr (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Josephson junction based logic devices and methods for their use are described. An example Josephson junction based logic device includes a three-input OR/MAJ/AND (OMA3) gate. The OMA3 gate includes a first input node inductively coupled to a first input source, a second input node inductively coupled to a second input source, and a third input node inductively coupled to a third input source. The first ...