ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,540, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Tokamak Energy Ltd (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"High temperature superconductor cable" was invented by Robert Slade (Abingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable for carrying electrical current in a coil of a magnet. The magnet comprises an HTS transport tape and a shunt assembly comprising two or more HTS shunt tapes arranged side-by-side across a face of the transport tape. Each of the transport and shunt tapes comprises a substrate layer and an HTS layer of high temperature superconductor (HTS) material, the layers of the shunt tapes extending parallel to the layers of the t...