US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Aug. 18 for "Circuits and methods for asynchronous adiabatic quantum flux parametron system design" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,784, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Circuits and methods for asynchronous adiabatic quantum flux parametron system design" was invented by L. Camron Blackburn (Somerville, Mass.), Neil Gershenfeld (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alexander Noble Wynn (Carlisle, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operation of AOFP circuits includes accepting data arriving at any phase of a clock cycle, synchronizing the data to a known phase of a subsequent clock cycle, and providing the synchronized data to an AQFP circuit during the known phase of the subsequent clock cycle. The acc...