US Patent Issued to PSIQUANTUM on July 14 for "Method of making a superconducting nanowire single photon detector using a sidewall image transfer process" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,032, issued on July 14, was assigned to PSIQUANTUM CORP. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method of making a superconducting nanowire single photon detector using a sidewall image transfer process" was invented by Nicholas Licausi (Watervliet, N.Y.) and Vimal Kamineni (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment method of manufacturing a superconducting nanowire includes forming a multilayer thin film stack including a superconducting layer, forming a mandrel over the multilayer thin film stack, forming an etch mask including a first mask portion on a first side of the mandrel and a second mask portion on a second side of the m...