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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2005
Applicants:
Phil Putman, Houston, TX (US);
Kamel Salama, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Phil Putman, Houston, TX (US);
Kamel Salama, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
The University of Houston System, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02K 33/00 (2006.01); F41F 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An electrically powered launcher is disclosed that can accelerate small payloads to orbital velocities. The invention uses a novel geometry to overcome limitations of other design, and allows full exploitation of existing superconducting materials.