US Patent Issued to BRUKER SWITZERLAND on Dec. 2 for "Device for transferring liquid helium, with reduced transfer losses" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,949, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to BRUKER SWITZERLAND AG (Faellanden, Switzerland).

"Device for transferring liquid helium, with reduced transfer losses" was invented by Patrick Wikus (Nuerensdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for transferring liquid helium into a usage helium tank of a usage cryostat includes a reservoir cryostat with a vacuum-insulated reservoir helium tank configured to store liquid helium available for filling the usage helium tank, a supply line for liquid helium, and a gaseous helium return line. The supply line proceeds from the vacuum-insulated reservoir helium tank and is connected ...