US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, TOKAI UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM on March 18 for "Compound superconducting twisted wire and rewinding method for compound superconducting twisted wire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,000, issued on March 18, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo), TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan) and TOKAI UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM (Tokyo).

"Compound superconducting twisted wire and rewinding method for compound superconducting twisted wire" was invented by Masahiro Sugimoto (Tokyo), Hirokazu Tsubouchi (Tokyo), Daisuke Asami (Tokyo), Hideki Ii (Tokyo), Satoshi Awaji (Sendai, Japan) and Hidetoshi Oguro (Hiratsuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compound superconducting twisted wire includes compound superconducting strands being twisted to form a twisted structure, in which each of the compound supercondu...