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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2019
Frank E Gordon, San Diego, CA (US);
Harper John Whitehouse, San Diego, CA (US);
Frank E Gordon, San Diego, CA (US);
Harper John Whitehouse, San Diego, CA (US);
Inovl, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A gaseous-phase ionizing radiation generator for the voltage controlled production, flux, and use of one or more forms of ionizing electromagnetic and/or particulate radiation including: embodiments to collect and convert the particulate radiation that is generated by the radiation generator into electricity; embodiments that generate electricity from the ionized gas within the radiation generator by means of an auxiliary electrode structure composed of interdigitated individual electrodes of alternating work function; and a method or procedure for the fabrication and the activation of at least one working electrode composed in part of a metal hydride host material that is not formally considered to be radioactive.