ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,694, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Thermalization of a cryogenic flex cable using a thermally conductive cladding" was invented by Charles Thomas Rettner (San Jose, Calif.), Jen-Hao Yeh (White Plains, N.Y.) and Daniel Rugar (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a cable passing from a first plate to a second plate via an intermediate plate, an attachment coupling the cable to the intermediate plate, and a conductive cladding connected to an outer surface of the cable and extended a first length from the attachment toward the second plate. The tot...