ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,002, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Enterprise Science Fund LLC (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Quantum-engineered superconductor metamaterial devices" was invented by Nathan P. Myhrvold (Bellevue, Wash.), Brian C. Holloway (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Stuart A. Wolf (Bowie, Md.), Rohit P. Prasankumar (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Christoph Heil (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments, a quantum-engineered superconductor metamaterial is formed with a plurality of structurally engineered superconductor nanophononic crystal nanostructures. Each superconductor nanophononic crystal nanostructure may be formed as a crysta...