US Patent Issued to NV BEKAERT, EPOCH WIRES on Jan. 13 for "Method for restoring superconductivity of an MgB2 wire" (British, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,780, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NV BEKAERT SA (Zwevegem, Belgium) and EPOCH WIRES Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Method for restoring superconductivity of an MgB2 wire" was invented by Serdar Atamert (Cambridge, Great Britain), Mehmet Kutukcu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Chris D'Hulst (Oeselgem, Belgium) and Jan Mestdagh (Harelbeke, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for restoring superconductivity of a wire having a core of reacted MgB2 comprises subjecting said wire to a two-phase heat treatment, wherein a first phase comprises heating in a range of 800deg C. to 1000deg C. during 20 minutes to 40 minutes and ...