US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE on Aug. 4 for "Quantum magnetic field receiving device" (Australian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,154, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE (Australia).

"Quantum magnetic field receiving device" was invented by Francesco Giazotto (Pisa, Italy), Petar B. Atanackovic (Henley Beach, Australia), Giuseppe Carlo Tettamanzi (Beulah Park, Australia) and Isaac Nakone (Redwood Park, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A quantum magnetic field receiving device includes a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) or a superconducting quantum interference filter (SQIF) and an electrostatic gating circuit configured to apply electrostatic fields to Josephson Junctions of the SQUID or SQIF."

The patent was...