US Patent Issued to Veir on March 3 for "Conductor systems for suspended or underground transmission lines" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,520, issued on March 3, was assigned to Veir Inc. (Woburn, Mass.).

"Conductor systems for suspended or underground transmission lines" was invented by Stephen Paul Ashworth (Gallicano, Italy), Franco Moriconi (Berkeley, Calif.) and Timothy David Heidel (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductor assembly for transmitting power includes a former that defines a shape, a superconductor material disposed around the former, and a thermally insulating jacket (TIJ) disposed around and spaced apart from the superconductor material. An outer surface of the superconductor material and an inner surface of the TIJ can define an a...