US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries on Sept. 29 for "Superconducting wire and superconducting wire connection structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,598, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Superconducting wire and superconducting wire connection structure" was invented by Takashi Yamaguchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting wire includes a substrate and a superconducting layer disposed on the substrate. The superconducting layer has a first surface facing the substrate and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The second surface has a portion having an arithmetic average roughness of 20 nm or more and a maximum height of 0.25 micro metre or more."

The patent was filed on June 22, 2022, und...