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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7858966 | Protected qubit based on superconducting current mirror A qubit implementation based on exciton condensation in capacitively coupled Josephson junction chains is disclosed. The qubit may be protected in the sense that unwanted terms in its effective Hamiltonian may be exponentially suppressed as the chain length increase... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7741634 | Josephson junction device for superconductive electronics with a magnesium diboride A Josephson junction (JJ) device includes a buffered substrate comprising a first buffer layer formed on a substrate. A second buffer layer is formed on the first buffer layer. The second buffer layer includes a hexagonal compound structure. A trilayer structure is ... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7368758 | Method for hermetically housing optical components, and optical components produced according to said method A method is provided for producing a housing body for optoelectronic components that are reliable and inexpensive. The method creates a hermetic joint between a metal sleeve and a glass pane by joining together a housing element and a preferably metallic housing arr... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7323711 | High-temperature superconductive device A high-temperature superconductive device is disclosed, including a ramp-edge junction. The ramp-edge junction includes a first electrode layer (5) that defines the size of the ramp-edge junction and a second electrode layer (6). The width of the secon... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7307275 | Encoding and error suppression for superconducting quantum computers The present invention involves a quantum computing structure, comprising: one or more logical qubits, which is encoded into a plurality of superconducting qubits; and each of the logical qubits comprises at least one operating qubit and at least one ancilla qubit. A... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7250648 | Ferroelectric rare-earth manganese-titanium oxides Ferroelectric rare-earth manganese-titanium oxides and methods of their manufacture. The ferroelectric materials can provide nonvolatile data storage in rapid access memory devices. ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7073958 | Optical module The present invention provides an optical module with effective thermal dissipation characteristic. The present optical module comprises a semiconductor optical device, a stem, plural lead terminals, a substrate and a base. The stem mounts the semiconductor optical ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7042063 | Semiconductor wafer, semiconductor device, and process for manufacturing the semiconductor device A semiconductor wafer is disclosed in which a high concentration impurity layer is formed in a semiconductor wafer to a predetermined depth, in order to electrically connect electrodes formed on the principal face of the wafer without forming trenches and through ho... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6995390 | Switching device using superlattice without any dielectric barriers A switching device has an S (Superconductor)-N (Normal Metal)-S superlattice to control the stream of electrons without any dielectric materials. Each layer of said Superconductor has own terminal. The superlattice spacing is selected based on “Dimensional Crossov... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6984846 | Gradiometer-based flux qubit for quantum computing and method therefor A qubit (quantum bit) circuit includes a superconducting main loop that is electrically-completed by a serially-interconnected superconducting subloop. The subloop includes two Josephson junctions. A first coil provides a first flux that couples with the main loop b... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6979836 | Superconducting low inductance qubit A superconducting structure that can operate, for example, as a qubit or a superconducting switch is presented. The structure includes a loop formed from two parts. A first part includes two superconducting materials separated by a junction. The junction can, for ex... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6956297 | Electronic circuit unit that is easy to manufacture and method of manufacturing the same An electronic circuit unit includes a substrate on which a wiring pattern is provided; electronic parts, including a semiconductor bare chip disposed on a surface of the substrate; and a soft sealing resin provided on the substrate so as to cover the electronic part... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6844566 | Suspended gate single-electron device The present invention provides a single-electron transistor device (100). The device (100) comprises a source (105) and drain (100) located over a substrate (115) and a quantum island (120) situated between the source and dr... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6822255 | Finger SQUID qubit device A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Eac... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6812484 | Finger squid qubit device A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Eac... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6803599 | Quantum processing system for a superconducting phase qubit A control system for an array of qubits is disclosed. The control system according to the present invention provides currents and voltages to qubits in the array of qubits in order to perform functions on the qubit. The functions that the control system can perform ... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6790675 | Josephson device and fabrication process thereof A method of fabricating a Josephson device includes the steps of forming a first superconducting layer and forming a second superconducting layer to form a Josephson junction therebetween, wherein the step of forming the second superconducting layer includes the ste... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6791109 | Finger SQUID qubit device A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Eac... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6784451 | Multi-junction phase qubit In one embodiment, a two-junction phase qubit includes a superconducting loop and two Josephson junctions separated by a mesoscopic island on one side and a bulk loop on another side. The material forming the superconducting loop is a superconducting material with a... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6777808 | Capacitor for signal propagation across ground plane boundaries in superconductor integrated circuits The self inductance associated with a capacitance A52 in a superconductor integrated circuit (FIG. 1) is reduced by adding a layer of superconductor metal (A54) overlying the capacitor, effectively producing a negative inductance to counteract t... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6728131 | Fluxon injection into annular Josephson junctions A method for inserting fluxons into an annular Josephson junction is disclosed. Fluxon injection according to the present invention is based on local current injection into one of the superconducting electrodes of the junction. By choosing an appropriate value for t... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6670630 | Quantum phase-charge coupled device A superconducting structure that includes a mesoscopic phase device and a mesoscopic charge device. The superconducting structure further includes a mechanism for coupling the mesoscopic phase device and the mesoscopic charge device so that the quantum st... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6649929 | Quantum computing with d-wave superconductors A method and structure for a d-wave qubit structure includes a qubit disk formed at a multi-crystal junction (or qubit ring) and a superconducting screening structure surrounding the qubit. The structure may also include a superconducting sensing loop, wh... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6627916 | High sensitivity, directional DC-squid magnetometer A solid state dc-SQUID includes a superconducting loop containing a plurality of Josephson junctions, wherein an intrinsic phase shift is accumulated through the loop. In an embodiment of the invention, the current-phase response of the dc-SQUID sits in a... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6614047 | Finger squid qubit device A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of sai... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6605822 | Quantum phase-charge coupled device A method for performing a quantum computing entanglement operation between a phase qubit and a charge qubit. A coherent connection between the phase qubit and the charge qubit is provided. The coherent connection allows the quantum state of the phase qubi... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6580102 | Four-terminal system for reading the state of a phase qubit Quantum computing systems and methods that use opposite magnetic moment states read the state of a qubit by applying current through the qubit and measuring a Hall effect voltage across the width of the current. For reading, the qubit is grounded to freez... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6562693 | Semiconductor laser device and wire bonding method capable of easily performing reliable wire bonding There is provided is a semiconductor laser device capable of simplifying fabricating processes with a simple construction and easily mounting two semiconductor laser elements and a monitoring PD on a compact package and a wire bonding method for the semic... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6495854 | Quantum computing with d-wave superconductors A method and structure for a d-wave qubit structure includes a qubit disk formed at a multi-crystal junction (or qubit ring) and a superconducting screening structure surrounding the qubit. The structure may also include a superconducting sensing loop, wh... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6479863 | Method and apparatus for injecting charge onto the floating gate of a nonvolatile memory cell A tunneling charge injector includes a conducting injector electrode, a grid insulator disposed adjacent the conducting injector electrode, a grid electrode disposed adjacent the grid insulator, a retention insulator disposed adjacent the grid electrode, ... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6365912 | Superconducting tunnel junction device A superconductive tunnel junction device in which quasiparticles in a superconductive region (S1), relax into a normal metal trap (N1) releasing their potential energy in electron-electron interactions to increase the number of excit... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6344659 | Superconducting transistor arrangement and a method relating thereto The present invention relates on an interferometer arrangement comprising a source electrode and a drain electrode, a base electrode to which the source electrode and the drain electrode are connected through tunnel barriers, the base electrode thus formi... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6160266 | Superconducting device and a method of manufacturing the same This invention provides a superconducting device with good characteristics that can be reproduced at an arbitrary place on a substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. A convex region (a processed, linearly shaped platinum thin film) of oriented me... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6147360 | Superconducting device and a method of manufacturing the same This invention provides a superconducting device with good characteristics that can be reproduced at an arbitrary place on a substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. A convex region (a processed, linearly-shaped platinum thin film) of oriented me... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6111268 | Electronic device The invention relates to an inverted JOFET with an at least bicrystalline electrically conductive substrate-layer bearing an insulating element and a superconductive element with a Josephson-junction. The substrate-layer is connected to a control-element.... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5965900 | Tunnel-effect superconductive detector cell The invention relates to a detector cell comprising tunnel-effect superconductive devices organized in a two-dimensional array and placed on a common substrate, each superconductive device comprising a tunnel-effect superconductive junction and being elec... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5955743 | Superconductive tunnel elements, tunnel stacks produced therefrom and use thereof The invention relates to a superconductive tunnel element comprising superconductors, barriers and insulators, which tunnel element has the following layer structure: superconductor (S1), insulator (I), superconductor (S2), barrier (B), superconductor (S3... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5942765 | High-temperature superconducting random access memory In the random access memory utilizing an oxide high-temperature superconductor, a first high-temperature superconductor layer 1, a non-superconductor layer 2, a second high-temperature superconductor layer 3 and a non-superconductor layer 4 are formed on ... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5872731 | Multi-state Josephson memory A multi-state Josephson memory in a superconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of superconductive quantum interference device (SQUID) memory cells 2 each having a SQUID 4 characterized by a SQUID loop inductance L and a junction critical curre... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5861361 | Superconducting field effect device having a superconducting channel and method for manufacturing the same A FET type superconducting device comprises a thin superconducting channel, a superconducting source region and a superconducting drain region formed of an oxide superconductor over a principal surface of the substrate, and a gate electrode on a gate insu... | 01/19/1999 |
