US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on July 29 for "Superconducting phase-change material switch" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,083, issued on July 29, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Superconducting phase-change material switch" was invented by Robert Miles Young (Ellicott City, Md.), Aurelius L. Graninger (Sykesville, Md.), Dustin Ray Johnson (Severna, Md.) and Justin C. Hackley (Catonsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of the invention includes a switch circuit including a first superconducting transmission line, a second superconducting transmission line and a phase-change material switch that is coupled between the first and second superconducting transmission lines. The phase-change material swi...