US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on Sept. 30 for "High temperature superconducting materials" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,174, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"High temperature superconducting materials" was invented by Jamil Tahir-Kheli (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting composition of matter including overlapping first and second regions. The regions comprise unit cells of a solid, the first region comprises an electrical insulator or semiconductor, and the second region comprises a metallic electrical conductor. The second region extends through the solid and a subset of said second region comprise surface metal unit cells that are adjacent to at least one uni...