ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,074, issued on April 22, was assigned to Southwest Jiaotong University (Chengdu, China).

"Method and apparatus for measuring magnetic field intensity in high-temperature superconducting maglev transportation systems" was invented by Rong Chen (Chengdu, China), Ping Wang (Chengdu, China), Tao Lv (Chengdu, China), Jingmang Xu (Chengdu, China), Zhou Xu (Chengdu, China), Kai Liu (Chengdu, China) and Min Xue (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the technical field of maglev transportation, specifically revealing a method and apparatus for measuring magnetic field intensity in high-temperature supe...