ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,640, issued on April 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for impedance matching networks for qubits" was invented by Stefano Pellerano (Beaverton, Ore.), JongSeok Park (Hillsboro, Ore.), Lester F. Lampert (Portland, Ore.), Sushil Subramanian (Beaverton, Ore.) and Thomas F. Watson (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for impedance matching networks for qubits are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, an impedance matching network matches a 50 Ohm transmission line to a spin qubit with a state-dependent resistance of 100 kiloohms to 105 kiloohms. The illustrative impedance m...