US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 8 for "Circuit manufacturing method and superconducting circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,407, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Circuit manufacturing method and superconducting circuit" was invented by Tomohiro Yamaji (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit manufacturing method according to the present disclosure is a circuit manufacturing method by deposition, comprising performing first deposition for forming a first superconductor layer, oxidizing a surface of the first superconductor layer to form an oxide film, performing second deposition for forming a second superconductor layer, whereby a circuit in which Josephson junctions are aligned is generated. A ma...