ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,981, issued on July 29, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).
"Superconductor joining and joints" was invented by John R. Hull (Sammamish, Wash.), John Hay Durrell (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Jasmin Vivien Joan Congreve (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Superconducting joints and methods of forming the same are described. A particular method includes arranging two or more terminals relative to one another and to one or more interconnect layers, wherein each terminal includes bulk high-temperature superconductive material and each terminal is coupled to at least one end of one or more high-temp...