ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,620, issued on March 31, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Technologies for scalable spin qubit readout" was invented by Bishnu Prasad Patra (Zoetermeer, Netherlands), Stefano Pellerano (Beaverton, Ore.) and JongSeok Park (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for scalable spin qubit readout are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, superconducting and semiconducting components are integrated onto a single chip, allowing for frequency and temporal multiplexing components to be integrated onto the same die. The semiconducting components on the die can include transistors, varactors, and am...