US Patent Issued to Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Jidosha on May 20 for "Room temperature superconducting circuit elements and methods of manufacturing the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,833, issued on May 20, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Room temperature superconducting circuit elements and methods of manufacturing the same" was invented by Joseph Harold Montoya (Berkeley, Calif.) and Abraham Silar Anapolsky (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting circuit element includes a piezoelectric or ferroelectric thin film formed on a rigid substrate. The piezoelectric or ferroelectric thin film has one or more circuit element openings and an under compression room temperature superconductor material disposed within th...