US Patent Issued to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 24 for "Magnetic field detector" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,977, issued on March 24, was assigned to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Magnetic field detector" was invented by Sergio A Montoya (Chula Vista, Calif.) and Benjamin J Taylor (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic field detector includes a substrate, two or more Josephson junctions, and one or more heater elements. The two or more of Josephson junctions are connected to each other by superconducting interconnected paths via a superconducting material and are arranged in an array. The one or more heater elements directly or indirectly adjust the temperatur...