US Patent Issued to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT on May 12 for "Persistent current switch" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,295, issued on May 12, was assigned to TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT (Delft, Netherlands).

"Persistent current switch" was invented by Ryoichi Ishihara (Rijswijk, Netherlands), Salahuddin Nur (Delft, Netherlands) and Jaime Oscar Tenorio Pearl (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A persistent current switch is disclosed for controlling, e.g. initiating, a persistent current in a superconductor loop. The persistent current switch comprises a piece of superconductor material that is part of the superconductor loop. Further, the persistent current switch comprises an illumination system that is configured to direct light...