US Patent Issued to Siemens Energy Global on May 27 for "Method for making electrical contact with a superconductive strip conductor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,061, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG (Bayern, Germany).

"Method for making electrical contact with a superconductive strip conductor" was invented by Otto Batz (Leutenbach, Germany), Michael Frank (Uttenreuth, Germany), Peter Kummeth (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Marijn Pieter Oomen (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating electrical contact between a first superconductive strip conductor and a further electrical conductor element, wherein the first superconductive strip conductor is placed in flat contact against a first main surface of a reactive multilayer film i...