US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on April 1 for "High temperature superconductor bi-superconducting quantum interference device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,100, issued on April 1, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"High temperature superconductor bi-superconducting quantum interference device" was invented by Susan Anne Elizabeth Berggren (San Diego), Benjamin Jeremy Taylor (Escondido, Calif.), Nicholas Biagio Ferrante (Lakeside, Calif.) and Rachel Mae Hobbs (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting quantum interference apparatus comprising a planar array of loops where each loop constitutes a superconducting quantum interference device, and a magnetic shield disposed over part of one of the loops so to p...