US Patent Issued to Florida State University Research Foundation on July 1 for "Symmetric quench protection of resistive insulation coils" (Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,612, issued on July 1, was assigned to Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Symmetric quench protection of resistive insulation coils" was invented by William Denis Markiewicz (Ipswich, Mass.), Mark D. Bird (Tallahassee, Fla.), Iain R. Dixon (Tallahassee, Fla.), William Scott Marshall (Tallahassee, Fla.), Thomas A. Painter (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Peng Xu (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnet includes a stack of a plurality of superconducting pancake wound coils having a stacking axis normal to a winding direction of the coils. The stack has axial ends and has a stack midplane rel...