ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,971, issued on March 25, was assigned to Tokamak Energy Ltd (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Alignment of HTS tapes" was invented by Robert Slade (Abingdon, Great Britain), Greg Brittles (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Bas Van Nugteren (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 cable comprises a stack of tape assemblies. Each tape assembly has a length and a width, such that the length is much larger than the width, and each tape assembly comprises an HTS layer of anisotropic high temperature superconductor. HTS material, wherein a c-axis of the HTS layer is at...