ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,013, issued on June 30, was assigned to FARADAY FACTORY JAPAN LLC (Tokyo).

"Method of fabricating superconducting wire" was invented by Valery Petrykin (Tokyo) and Sergey Li (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a superconducting wire includes forming a buffer layer on the substrate, the buffer layer including an Al2O3 layer, the Al2O3 layer being formed by reactive magnetron sputtering in which first oxygen gas as reactant gas and a sputtering target made of aluminium metal are used, the Al2O3 layer being formed while being supplied the first oxygen gas at a first concentration, the first concentration being ...