ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,695, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Transmitting frequency multiplexed signals from a superconducting domain" was invented by Derek Leslie Knee (Fort Collins, Colo.), John Murray Hornibrook (Sydney), Ian Douglas Conway Lamb (Coogee, Australia), Richard Prescott Rouse (Kirkland, Wash.) and David John Reilly (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit configured to transmit frequency multiplexed signals from a superconducting domain to a higher temperature domain. The circuit comprising a multiplexed signal output and a plurality of superconducting oscillator circuits each ...