US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 24 for "Method for determining presence of a signature consistent with a pair of Majorana Zero Modes and a quantum computer" (Danish, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,593, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method for determining presence of a signature consistent with a pair of Majorana Zero Modes and a quantum computer" was invented by Lucas Casparis (Copenhagen, Denmark), Andrew Patrick Higginbotham (Vienna) and Esteban Adrian Martinez (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At a first terminal of a structure capable of hosting Majorana Zero Modes, a first set of data points measuring conductance between the first terminal and a middle terminal of the structure is obtained for different values of bias voltage at the first termina...