US Patent Issued to THEVA DUNNSCHICHTTECHNIK on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus, method and system for coating a substrate, in particular a superconducting tape conductor and coated superconducting tape conductor" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,409, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THEVA DUNNSCHICHTTECHNIK GMBH (Ismaning, Germany).

"Apparatus, method and system for coating a substrate, in particular a superconducting tape conductor and coated superconducting tape conductor" was invented by Georg Sigl (Neubiberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for coating a substrate, in particular a superconducting tape conductor, in a vacuum environment, comprising: generating a metallic material in the gas phase, feeding the gaseous metallic material into an expansion chamber, wherein the expansion chamber is adapted to cause the gaseous m...