US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE, Japan Superconductivity Application Development on June 30 for "Niobium-aluminum precursor wire, niobium-aluminum precursor twisted wire, niobium-aluminum superconducting wire, and niobium-aluminum superconducting twisted wire" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,014, issued on June 30, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE (Ibaraki, Japan) and Japan Superconductivity Application Development Inc. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Niobium-aluminum precursor wire, niobium-aluminum precursor twisted wire, niobium-aluminum superconducting wire, and niobium-aluminum superconducting twisted wire" was invented by Akihiro Kikuchi (Tsukuba, Japan), Yasuo Iijima (Tsukuba, Japan), Masaru Yamamoto (Chuo, Japan), Masatoshi Kawano (Chuo, Japan) and Masato Otsubo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a niobium-aluminum precursor wire having properties...