ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,451, issued on April 15, was assigned to KIUTRA GMBH (Munich).

"Support structure for a cryogenic system and cryogenic system" was invented by Jan Spallek (Munich), Felix Rucker (Munich), Peter Schussler (Munich), Klaus Eibensteiner (Munich) and Mario Weisser (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a support structure for a cryogenic system with a first compartment, a second compartment, and a third compartment that are vertically stacked in this order; the first compartment configured to accommodate a cryostat; the second compartment configured to provide access to a top portion of the cryostat for performing measurements...