US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 8 for "Superconducting quantum interference devices and uses thereof" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,408, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Superconducting quantum interference devices and uses thereof" was invented by Gijsbertus De Lange (Schiphol, Netherlands) and Jaap Joachim Wesdorp (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a substrate having a planar surface; a first magnet configured to apply a first magnetic field parallel to the planar surface; a circuit arranged on the planar surface; and a superconducting quantum interference device, SQUID, operably linked to the circuit. The SQUID comprises a Josephson junction arranged in a superconductive...