US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Side-gated semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,869, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Side-gated semiconductor-superconductor hybrid devices" was invented by Marina Quintero Perez (Delft, Netherlands), David Johannes Van Woerkom (Pijnacker, Netherlands), Vinay Kumar Chinni (Delft, Netherlands) and Amrita Singh (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect provides semiconductor-superconductor hybrid device comprises a substrate, a first semiconductor component arranged on the substrate, a superconductor component arranged to be capable of energy level hybridisation with the first semiconductor component, and...