ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,122, issued on March 17, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Superconducting material and method of preparation thereof" was invented by Yassine Slimani (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Sarah Awwadh Alotaibi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Munirah Abdullah Almessiere (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting material is described. The superconducting material includes a rare-earth barium copper oxide (ReBCO) matrix, 0.01 to 0.5 weight percentage (wt. %), WO3 nanoparticles, based on the total weight of superconducting material, and 0.01 to 0.5 wt. % barium titanate nanopartic...