US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Commonwealth Fusion Systems on March 17 for "Cooling system for superconducting wind power generator" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,449, issued on March 17, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC (Devens, Mass.).

"Cooling system for superconducting wind power generator" was invented by Alexey Radovinsky (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alexander Zhukovsky (Brighton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for a wind power generator in which a refrigerant such as liquid helium and/or helium gas is applied to superconducting magnets via thermally conductive flexible structures. These structures thermally couple the refrigerant channels to the magnets, and/or to a thermally conductive...