US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 23 for "Isolated bottom corner gates for spin-qubits in a fin" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,372, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Isolated bottom corner gates for spin-qubits in a fin" was invented by Felix Julian Schupp (Adliswil, Switzerland), Noelia Vico Trivino (Zurich), Matthias Mergenthaler (Zurich) and Andreas Fuhrer Janett (Rueschlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A qubit device or system having isolated bottom corner gates includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor fin perpendicularly adjoining a top surface of the substrate. The qubit device also includes a first gate located at a first corner between a first side of the fin and th...