US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM on July 22 for "Method for production quality control of flexible superconducting tapes" (American, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,500, issued on July 22, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM (Houston).

"Method for production quality control of flexible superconducting tapes" was invented by Jaroslaw Wosik (Houston), Jerzy Krupka (Izabelin, Poland) and Venkat Selvamanickam (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for quality control of superconducting tapes, comprising non-destructive and non-contact methods for measuring the surface resistance of a superconducting tape during tape growth. The dielectric resonator techniques of the present invention can be adapted for measurements at the elevated temperatures used during annealing a...