US Patent Issued to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College on April 14 for "Current sensing noise thermometer" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,640, issued on April 14, was assigned to Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (Egham, Great Britain).

"Current sensing noise thermometer" was invented by Andrew James Casey (Egham, Great Britain), John Saunders (Egham, Great Britain), Lev Vitalievich Levitin (Egham, Great Britain) and Harriet Van Der Vliet (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensing noise thermometer comprising: a sensor resistor thermally coupled to a target to be measured; a superconducting coil; superconducting thermal breaks between respective ends of the sensor resistor and respective ends of the superconducting coil; and a su...