US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on Dec. 30 for "Magnetic levitation based low-gravity system" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,772, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Magnetic levitation based low-gravity system" was invented by Wei Guo (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Hamid Sanavandi (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved magnetic-levitation-based low-gravity simulator (MLS) is provided. The MLS comprises one or more gradient-field Maxwell coils that are provided within a superconducting magnet. When a current is provided to the one or more Maxwell coils and the superconducting magnet, a simulated low-gravity region is produced within the MLS. An object may be provided...