ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,649, issued on March 18, was assigned to University of Houston System (Houston).
"Quality control of high performance superconductor tapes" was invented by Goran Majkic (Houston) and Venkat Selvamanickam (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconductor tape and method for manufacturing, measuring, monitoring, and controlling same are disclosed. Embodiments are directed to a superconductor tape which includes a superconductor film overlying a buffer layer which overlies a substrate. In one embodiment, the superconductor film is defined as having a c-axis lattice constant higher than 11.74 Angstroms. In another embodiment, the...