ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,409, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Quantum Designed Materials Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Superconducting compounds and methods for making the same" was invented by Refael Gatt (Mazkeret Batya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting article includes a substrate and a superconducting metal oxide film formed on the substrate. The metal oxide film including ions of an alkali metal, ions of a transition metal, and ions of an alkaline earth metal or a rare earth metal. For instance, the metal oxide film can include Rb ions, La ions, and Cu ions. The superconducting metal oxide film can have a critical temperature for on...