US Patent Issued to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology on Oct. 7 for "High-temperature superconducting coated conductor and method for manufacturing same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,901, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Tokyo).

"High-temperature superconducting coated conductor and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Takato Machi (Ibaraki, Japan) and Teruo Izumi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A purpose of the present invention is to provide a coated conductor having a high critical current and low AC loss. The high-temperature superconducting coated conductor that achieves this purpose has an elongated first metal substrate, and multiple filaments arranged on the first metal substrate so as to extend in a longitudinal di...