US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 3 for "Tunable ground connection to Majorana zero modes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,773, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tunable ground connection to Majorana zero modes" was invented by Parsa Bonderson (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Christina Paulsen Knapp (Goleta, Calif.), Roman Bela Bauer (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Emily Anne Toomey (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and David Alexander Aasen (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is presented. The computing system comprises a Majorana island at which a plurality of Majorana zero modes are instantiated, and a grounded region tunably coupled to one of the Majorana zero modes. The grounded regi...