ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,702, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tokamak Energy Ltd (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"High temperature superconductor magnet" was invented by Greg Brittles (Abingdon, Great Britain), Marcel Kruip (Abingdon, Great Britain), Tony Langtry (Abingdon, Great Britain) and George Smith (Abingdon, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A High Temperature Superconductor, HTS, magnet comprising a coil formed of nested concentric windings. Each winding comprises HTS material. The HTS magnet further comprises a conductor element comprising an electrical contact surface through which to supply electric current to a portion of at least one...