US Patent Issued to MetOx International on March 31 for "Superconductor flux pinning without columnar defects" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,617, issued on March 31, was assigned to MetOx International Inc. (Houston).

"Superconductor flux pinning without columnar defects" was invented by Mikhail Novozhilov (Houston) and Alex Ignatiev (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is a superconducting article that includes a superconducting film comprising a substrate, one or more buffer layers, and a high temperature superconducting (HTS) layer. The superconducting layer may be comprised of the chemical composition REBa2Cu3O7-x, where RE is one or more rare earth elements, for example: Y, La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu. The superconductor layer is produ...