ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,488, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAFRAN (Paris) and UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE (Nancy, France).

"Flux barrier electric machine with superconducting induced element and inductor" was invented by Sabrina Siham Ayat (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Alexandre Colle (Montreuil, France) and Remy Biaujaud (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting flux barrier electric machine, including one induced element and one inductor, the inductor including one superconducting induction coil and a rotary portion forming a rotor, and the induced element including one arrangement of electromagnetic coils coaxial with the s...