US Patent Issued to VICTORIA LINK on March 3 for "Superconducting switches" (New Zealander, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,774, issued on March 3, was assigned to VICTORIA LINK Ltd. (Wellington, New Zealand).

"Superconducting switches" was invented by Rodney Alan Badcock (Wellington, New Zealand), Christopher William Bumby (Wellington, New Zealand), Jianzhao Geng (Hubei, China) and James Hamilton Palmer Rice (Wellington, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an electrical switch comprising a length of superconducting material. In some forms the electrical switch is configured to be controlled between a low-resistance state and a higher-resistance state by the selective application of one or more switching mechanisms. In the higher-...