US Patent Issued to NEXANS on Aug. 5 for "Multiple cooling systems arrangement for superconducting cable system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,019, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to NEXANS (Courbevoie, France).

"Multiple cooling systems arrangement for superconducting cable system" was invented by Jean-Maxime Saugrain (Le Vesinet, France) and Nicolas Lallouet (Baincthun, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting wired electrical circuit has two portions (1a, 1b) each having a superconducting cable core (2a, 2b), an electrical insulation layer (3a, 3b), a screen (4a, 4b) and a cryogenic jacket (5a, 5b) surrounding the screen (4a, 4b) to allow the circulation of a cryogenic fluid. At least a first arrangement (A) has a cryostatic junction unit (7) electrically co...