US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on Jan. 27 for "Tunable coupler with controlled impedance states" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,523, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Tunable coupler with controlled impedance states" was invented by Jeremy Brendon Clark (Washington Township, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tunable coupler circuit is provided that includes a coupling superconductor quantum interference device (SQUID) having a first end configured to be coupled to a first resonator device and a second end configured to be coupled to a second resonator device. A first shunt SQUID coupled between the first coupling node and ground, and a second shunt SQUID coupled between the second coupling node and gro...