US Patent Issued to This Texas A&M University System, Accelerator Technology on May 5 for "Conformal winding and current-sharing in a dipole magnet using superconducting tape conductor" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,514, issued on May 5, was assigned to This Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas) and Accelerator Technology Corp. (College Station, Texas).

"Conformal winding and current-sharing in a dipole magnet using superconducting tape conductor" was invented by Peter McIntyre (Bryan, Texas) and John Scott Rogers (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conformal dipole winding includes a superconducting tape configured with a geometry that orients a face of the superconducting tape to be parallel to a local magnetic field produced by the winding along a length of the superconducting tape. The superconducting tape f...