US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 19 for "Two-phase helium convection loop for cryogenic cooling" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,682, issued on May 19, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Two-phase helium convection loop for cryogenic cooling" was invented by John Cummings (Stoneham, Mass.), George Haldeman (Lexington, Mass.), Lawrence Narkewich (West Roxbury, Mass.), Sergey K. Tolpygo (Waltham, Mass.) and John Ingwersen (Portsmouth, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a probing system and technique for testing superconducting and low-temperature circuitry at the wafer level. In embodiments, the system includes a helium convection loop such as a passive helium convection loop. The use of a passive helium conve...