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https://www.nist.gov/patents/inventors/1167441
Search Patents by Pete Hopkins
Patents listed here reflect only technologies patented from FY 2018-present. To view all of NIST's patented technologies, visit the NIST pages on the Federal Laboratory Consortium website.
Samuel P. Benz
,
Manuel Castellanos Beltran
,
Paul Dresselhaus
and
Pete Hopkins
We have invented a pulse quantizer that uses arrays of one or more Josephson junctions to create a pulse voltage output that is immune to differential pulse timing shifts. When the output pulse patterns are used to encode a waveform, for example, the waveform will be free from pulse timing shifts