ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,100, issued on March 17, was assigned to PSIQUANTUM CORP. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Thermal measurements using superconducting materials" was invented by Qiaodan Jin Stone (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Gary Gibson (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method described herein includes operating a first component of a circuit. The method also includes, while operating the first component, supplying a current to a superconducting wire that is thermally-coupled to the first component, and determining whether the superconducting wire has transitioned between a superconducting state to a non-superconducting state in response ...