ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,391, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Teikyo University (Tokyo).

"Quantum device" was invented by Tetsufumi Tanamoto (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum device includes a transistor structure section having a source, a drain, and a gate, one or more quantum dot structure sections in which a charge is localizable, and a quantum bit control current line configured to change a state of the charge in the quantum dot structure section."

The patent was filed on May 28, 2021, under Application No. 17/928,807.

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