ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,370, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Houston System (Houston).
"Quench detection in superconductors" was invented by Goran Majkic (Houston), Venkat Selvamanickam (Houston) and Jarek Wosik (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for quench detection in high temperature superconductors, such as REBCO (rare-earth barium copper oxide), before thermal runaway. A REBCO superconducting tape is excited as a transmission line forming standing waves. A quench may then be detected in response to detecting a disturbance of the standing waves. In this manner, quench in high temperature superconductors, such ...