ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,915, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Messer SE & Co. KGaA (Bad Soden, Germany) and Vision Electric Super Conductors GmbH (Kaiserslautern, Germany).
"Apparatus for transmitting electrical energy with a superconducting current carrier" was invented by Friedhelm Herzog (Krefeld, Germany), Thomas Kutz (Bruggen-Born, Germany), Wolfgang Reiser (Kaiserslautern, Germany) and Stefan Huwer (Kaiserslautern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for transmitting electrical energy with a superconducting current carrier, in which the superconducting current carrier to be cooled is accommodated in a first cooling channel, which first co...