ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,243, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to JEOL Ltd. (Tokyo), RIKEN (Saitama, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Superconducting coil device" was invented by Masatoshi Yoshikawa (Kobe, Japan), Yasuyuki Miyoshi (Kobe, Japan), Mamoru Hamada (Kobe, Japan), Kazuyoshi Saito (Kobe, Japan), Yoshinori Yanagisawa (Wako, Japan), Renzhong Piao (Wako, Japan), Kotaro Ohki (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Tatsuoki Nagaishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting coil device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: A superconducting coil device including: a bob...