US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Sept. 30 for "Magnetic levitation system" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,532, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Magnetic levitation system" was invented by Christoffer Karl Abrahamsson (Cambridge, Mass.), Amit Arun Nagarkar (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Johannes Fink (Cambridge, Mass.), Markus P. Nemitz (Cambridge, Mass.), Daniel John Preston (Cambridge, Mass.), Shencheng Ge (Cambridge, Mass.), Joseph Bozenko (Cambridge, Mass.) and George M. Whitesides (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic levitation system is described, including a first and second magnets having surfaces of their like-poles facing each other; and a cont...