US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on July 8 for "Meissner-effect transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeter" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,634, issued on July 8, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Meissner-effect transition-edge-sensor microcalorimeter" was invented by Stephen M. Carr (Albuquerque, N.M.), Michael C. Hamel (Albuquerque, N.M.), Jesse John Bland (Albuquerque, N.M.), Christian Lew Arrington (Albuquerque, N.M.), Juan Pedro Mendez Granado (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Patrick Sean Finnegan (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Meissner-Effect Transition-Edge-Sensor (ME-TES) microcalorimeter device may have one or more microcalorimeter elements, each including an absorber body composed of a su...