ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,011, issued on May 26, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN (Leiden, Netherlands).
"Junction, device and methods of fabrication" was invented by Kaveh Lahabi (Leiden, Netherlands), Thomas Mechielsen (Leiden, Netherlands), Marcel B. S. Hesselberth (Leiden, Netherlands), Tycho J. Blom (Leiden, Netherlands) and Jan Aarts (Leiden, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Josephson junction comprises superconducting electrodes (20) interconnected via an intermediate Josephson barrier (22), wherein the superconducting electrodes (20) and the intermediate Josephson barrier (22) are made out of the same chemical elements and are in a prist...