ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,163, issued on May 6.
"Method and device for precooling a cryostat" was invented by Marco Strobel (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for precooling a cryostat having a hollow cold head turret into which a neck tube protrudes and connects an object to be cooled to the exterior of the cryostat, wherein a cold head having a cold head stage for cooling a cryogenic working medium may be introduced into the neck tube. During a condensation operation the cryogenic working medium flows through a heat pipe into an evaporator chamber which is thermally conductively connected to the object to be cooled. Duri...