ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,882, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tokamak Energy Ltd (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Central column designs for tokamaks" was invented by Tony Langtry (Abingdon, Great Britain), Robert Slade (Abingdon, Great Britain) and Marcel Kruip (Abingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a central column for a toroidal field coil of a tokamak plasma chamber. The central column comprises a support member extending vertically along a central axis of the central column made from material with high compressive strength, and current carrying elements located radially outward of the support member. The support member is...