US Patent Issued to LAU Superconductors on May 13 for "Manufacture and repair of high temperature reinforced superconductors" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,558, issued on May 13, was assigned to LAU Superconductors Inc. (Hunt Valley, Md.).

"Manufacture and repair of high temperature reinforced superconductors" was invented by Wayne Chung Wei Lau (Geneva) and Kysen Grant Boyd Palmer (Eau Claire, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a container and a seed crystal holder. The container is configured to hold melted component powders. The seed crystal holder is configured to hold a seed crystal. The seed crystal holder is configured to put the seed crystal in contact with the melted component powders. The seed crystal holder moves the seed crystal to grow a crystal from the ...