ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,565, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods involving suppression of spurious modes in resonator-based circuits" was invented by Eric Stolt (Stanford, Calif.), Juan Rivas-Davila (Palo Alto, Calif.), Weston Braun (Stanford, Calif.), Ruochen Lu (Austin, Texas) and Kristi Nguyen (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain examples, methods and apparatus are directed to a resonator-based circuit which, in operation, has an electrically-conductive band ("band") at least partially surrounding a center electrode which i...