US Patent Issued to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS on May 19 for "Active moat system for flux trapping" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,432, issued on May 19, was assigned to NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"Active moat system for flux trapping" was invented by Anthony Joseph Przybysz (Linthicum, Md.), Aurelius L. Graninger (Sykesville, Md.) and Aaron Christopher Lee (Hyattsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconductor system is provided that includes a superconductor device comprising a plurality of superconductor layers and dielectric layers interleaved with the plurality of superconductor layers, wherein at least one superconductor layer is a ground plane. The superconductor device further includes superconductor circuitry that resi...