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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. 20, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2015
Applicant:
Msnw Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
John Thomas Slough, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
MSNW LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21B 1/05 (2006.01); B64G 1/40 (2006.01); B64G 1/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21B 1/052 (2013.01); B64G 1/408 (2013.01); B64G 1/422 (2013.01); Y02E 30/122 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods establish a magnetically insulated fusion process. An exemplary embodiment establishes a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) plasma, wherein the FRC plasma is a closed field, magnetically confined plasma; collapses a metal shell about the FRC plasma; and establishes a fusion reaction in response to collapsing the metal shell about the FRC plasma.