MagneSensors has broad patent coverage for its core technology. MagneSensors owns eight patents and has exclusive royalty-free licenses to five patents along with a non-exclusive royalty-free sublicense to key IBM technology (26 separate categories).
Perhaps even more importantly, MagneSensors has an extensive portfolio of highly developed proprietary fabrication processes as well as design and measurement techniques. MagneSensors’ core technology presents a very formidable barrier to entry, as it requires mastering complex superconducting materials systems using specialized processes, equipment, and highly trained personnel. MagneSensors is the only U.S. company, and one of only three or four companies worldwide, with such capability. Over the intervening years MagneSensors researchers have evolved the technology to the point where the sensors now have the requisite sensitivity and reliability for commercialization.