US Patent Issued to Airbus on Sept. 8 for "Superconductor current limiting device and aircraft comprising such a device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,983, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Airbus SAS (Blagnac, France).

"Superconductor current limiting device and aircraft comprising such a device" was invented by Alexandre Colle (Blagnac, France) and Reda Abdouh (Blagnac, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconductor current limiting device comprising a leak-tight enclosure having two apertures arranged to allow a circulation of a cryogenic fluid, a superconductor busbar, and an inductor comprising two poles arranged inside the leak-tight enclosure and disposed facing a central part of the superconductor busbar. Each of the two poles of the inductor is electrically connec...