ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,711, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC (Devens, Morocco).

"Techniques for distributing forces in high field magnets and related systems and methods" was invented by Alexey Radovinsky (Cambridge, Mass.), Alexander Zhukovsky (Brighton, Mass.), Nicholas J. Kelton (Somerville, Mass.), Sergey Kuznetsov (Attleboro, Mass.), Daniel Nash (Somerville, Mass.), Charlie Sanabria (Shirley, Mass.), Brian Labombard (Belmont, Mass.), Daniel Brunner (Savannah, Ga.) and Grant William Kristofek (Wayland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are descr...