US Patent Issued to VICTORIA LINK on Oct. 7 for "Superconducting switch" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,833, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to VICTORIA LINK Ltd. (Wellington, New Zealand).

"Superconducting switch" was invented by Rodney Alan Badcock (Wellington, New Zealand), Christopher William Bumby (Wellington, New Zealand) and Jianzhao Geng (Wellington, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a superconducting electrical switch. The switch comprises two parallel branches of superconducting material in a loop, and a magnetic field generator which generates a time-varying magnetic field through the loop in a direction generally parallel to the axis of the loop. The magnetic field generator is selectively ac...