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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 7/2/2024 was filed. The submission is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(b):
(b) CONCLUSION.—The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph:
The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention.
Claims 7-9 and 20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.
Claim 7 recites the limitation "the first bonding structure" in line 2 of the claim . There is insufficient antecedent basis for this limitation in the claim.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-6 and 10-19 are allowed.
Allowable Subject Matter
The following is a statement of reasons for the indication of allowable subject matter: With regard to claims 1-6 and 10-14, the prior art does not disclose or fairly teach the specific circuit configuration with emphasis on the second structure including a second cavity resonator having a second resonance frequency, a second other cavity resonator having a second other resonance frequency, and a second coupler configured to couple the second cavity resonator and the second other cavity resonator, the second other resonance frequency being lower than the second resonance frequency, the first coupling structure being configured to couple the first structure and the second structure, the controller being configured to supply a first AC signal including an AC component to the first conductive portion, the controller being configured to supply a second AC signal including an AC component to the second conductive portion, a first magnetic field generated from the first conductive portion in response to the first AC signal being applied to the first coupler, a second magnetic field generated from the second conductive portion in response to the second AC signal being applied to the second coupler, the controller being configured to supply a first DC pulse signal to the first coupling conductive portion, and a first coupling magnetic field generated from the first coupling conductive portion in response to the first DC pulse signal being applied to the first coupling structure. With regard to claims 15-19, the prior art does not disclose or fairly teach the specific circuit configuration with emphasis on the second structure including a second cavity resonator having a second resonance frequency, a second other cavity resonator having a second other resonance frequency, and a second coupler configured to couple the second cavity resonator and the second other cavity resonator, the second other resonance frequency being lower than the second resonance frequency, the first coupling structure being configured to couple the first structure and the second structure.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
Silwa et al US Patent 10,461,385 titled “Josephson junction-based circulators and related systems and methods”.
Silwa et al discloses a circuit 100 shown in figure 1 which may be operated by the controller and signal source 105 to perform as a circulator or as a directional amplifier. Circuit 100 also includes a plurality of ports 110, a sub circuit 120 which routes the ports to one or more of the resonators 130, and a circuit loop 150 around which a number of Josephson junctions 140 are placed and interspersed with connections to the resonators 130.
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Wang et al US Patent 11,184,006 tilted “ Techniques for manipulation of two qubit quantum states and related systems and methods”.
Wang et al discloses in FIGS. 3A and 3B an illustrative circuit quantum electrodynamics (cQED) system comprising two coaxial resonator cavities coupled to an ancilla transmon. The resonator is formed by the resonator cavity and by the stripline on the transmon chip which is the central element of the coaxial arrangement. The transmon features three antennas 331, 332 and 333, which are coupled to the cavity 310, cavity 320 and readout resonator 340, respectively. Josephson junction 335 is coupled to each of the antennas
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February 18, 2026
/K.E.G/Examiner, Art Unit 2843
/ANDREA LINDGREN BALTZELL/Supervisory Patent Examiner, Art Unit 2843