ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,702, issued on May 26, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Josephson wide band multiplexer-demultiplexer circuit" was invented by Matthew Beck (Danbury, Conn.) and Joseph Allen Glick (Putnam Valley, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting circuit includes a first port and a plurality of second ports; a plurality of filter poles, each filter pole comprising an inductor and a capacitor connected in parallel, between the first port and a second port in the plurality of second ports; an admittance inverter comprising at least one of a coupling capacitor, a coupling inductor, and a Josephson...