NASA- Zawodny - USPTO Patent Application on LENRs No 20110255645 - Published Oct 20 2011
A NASA LENR-related patent application that lists Dr. Joseph Zawodny as Inventor, senior staff physicist at NASA-LaRC, was published by the USPTO on October 20, 2011. What is significant about this recently unveiled patent activity by a U.S. government agency is that NASA clearly believes that LENRs are real phenomena, that they are potentially commercially valuable for power generation applications, and that it is worth it for NASA to spend taxpayer dollars in an attempt to secure an early patent position for the U.S. government. In addition, careful reading of US #20110255645 makes it abundantly clear is that the device physics underlying NASA’s application is directly derived from the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs. In fact, Lattice patent US #7,893,414 B2, “Apparatus and Method for Absorption of Incident Gamma Radiation and its Conversion to Outgoing Radiation at Less Penetrating, Lower Energies and Frequencies, Inventors: Lewis Larsen and Allan Widom, issued February 22, 2011, is cited in [0020] as prior art and incorporated in its entirety as part of NASA’s application.
![NASA files USPTO patent application on LENRs
Patent application title: Method for Producing Heavy Electrons
Inventors: Joseph M. Zawodny (Poquoson, VA, US)
Assignees: USA as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
IPC8 Class: AG21B100FI
USPC Class: 376108
Class name: Including accelerating particles into a stationary or static target (e.g., Cockcroft-Walton
generator type)
Publication date: 10/20/2011
Patent application number: 20110255645
Derived from: U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/317,379 dated March 25, 2010
USPTO hyperlink to application: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-
Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f
=G&l=50&s1=%2220110255645%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110255645&RS=DN/20110255645
A NASA LENR-related patent application that lists Dr. Joseph Zawodny as Inventor, senior staff physicist
at NASA-LaRC, was published by the USPTO on October 20, 2011.
What is significant about this recently unveiled patent activity by a U.S. government agency is that NASA
clearly believes that LENRs are real phenomena, that they are potentially commercially valuable for
power generation applications, and that it is worth it for NASA to spend taxpayer dollars in an attempt to
secure an early patent position for the U.S. government. In addition, careful reading of US #20110255645
makes it abundantly clear that the device physics underlying NASA’s application is directly derived from
the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs. In fact, Lattice patent US #7,893,414 B2, “Apparatus and Method for
Absorption of Incident Gamma Radiation and its Conversion to Outgoing Radiation at Less Penetrating,
Lower Energies and Frequencies”, inventors: Lewis Larsen and Allan Widom, issued February 22, 2011,
is cited in [0020] as prior art and incorporated in its entirety as part of NASA’s patent application.
The following quotes taken directly from this application are instructive and very revealing:
[0006] ...More recently, the energy associated with "low energy nuclear reactions" (LENR) has been
linked to the production of heavy electrons. Briefly, this theory put forth by Widom and Larsen states that
the initiation of LENR activity is due to the coupling of "surface plasmon polaritons" (SPPs) to a proton or
deuteron resonance in the lattice of a metal hydride. The theory goes on to describe the production of
heavy electron that undergo electron capture by a proton. This activity produces a neutron that is
subsequently captured by a nearby atom transmuting it into a new element and releasing positive net
energy in the process. See A. Widom et al. "Ultra Low Momentum Neutron Catalyzed Nuclear Reactions
on Metallic Hydride Surface," European Physical Journal C-Particles and Fields, 46, pp. 107-112, 2006,
and U.S. Pat. No. 7,893,414 issued to Larsen et al. Unfortunately, such heavy electron production has
only occurred in small random regions or patches of sample materials/devices. In terms of energy
generation or gamma ray shielding, this limits the predictability and effectiveness of the device. Further,
random-patch heavy electron production limits the amount of positive net energy that is produced to limit
the efficiency of the device in an energy generation application.
[0007] Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method of making a device that
produces heavy electrons.
[0021] ...The present invention provides a method of making devices that can produce heavy electrons in
a predictable/controllable fashion across an entire surface or volume of the device. In general, device 10
includes a selected material system 12 that is incorporated onto/into a tuned structure 14 that supports
propagation of SPPs and resulting heavy electron production that is sustained by device 10 across and/or
through the entirety thereof.
[0025]... That is, once established, SPP resonance will be self-sustaining so that large power output-to-
input ratios will be possible from device 10.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/nasa-zawodny-usptopatentapplicationonlenrs-no20110255645-publishedoct202011-111118122838-phpapp02/85/NASA-Zawodny-USPTO-Patent-Application-on-LENRs-No-20110255645-Published-Oct-20-2011-1-320.jpg)
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NASA- Zawodny - USPTO Patent Application on LENRs No 20110255645 - Published Oct 20 2011
- 1. NASA files USPTO patent application on LENRs Patent application title: Method for Producing Heavy Electrons Inventors: Joseph M. Zawodny (Poquoson, VA, US) Assignees: USA as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration IPC8 Class: AG21B100FI USPC Class: 376108 Class name: Including accelerating particles into a stationary or static target (e.g., Cockcroft-Walton generator type) Publication date: 10/20/2011 Patent application number: 20110255645 Derived from: U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 61/317,379 dated March 25, 2010 USPTO hyperlink to application: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph- Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f =G&l=50&s1=%2220110255645%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20110255645&RS=DN/20110255645 A NASA LENR-related patent application that lists Dr. Joseph Zawodny as Inventor, senior staff physicist at NASA-LaRC, was published by the USPTO on October 20, 2011. What is significant about this recently unveiled patent activity by a U.S. government agency is that NASA clearly believes that LENRs are real phenomena, that they are potentially commercially valuable for power generation applications, and that it is worth it for NASA to spend taxpayer dollars in an attempt to secure an early patent position for the U.S. government. In addition, careful reading of US #20110255645 makes it abundantly clear that the device physics underlying NASA’s application is directly derived from the Widom-Larsen theory of LENRs. In fact, Lattice patent US #7,893,414 B2, “Apparatus and Method for Absorption of Incident Gamma Radiation and its Conversion to Outgoing Radiation at Less Penetrating, Lower Energies and Frequencies”, inventors: Lewis Larsen and Allan Widom, issued February 22, 2011, is cited in [0020] as prior art and incorporated in its entirety as part of NASA’s patent application. The following quotes taken directly from this application are instructive and very revealing: [0006] ...More recently, the energy associated with "low energy nuclear reactions" (LENR) has been linked to the production of heavy electrons. Briefly, this theory put forth by Widom and Larsen states that the initiation of LENR activity is due to the coupling of "surface plasmon polaritons" (SPPs) to a proton or deuteron resonance in the lattice of a metal hydride. The theory goes on to describe the production of heavy electron that undergo electron capture by a proton. This activity produces a neutron that is subsequently captured by a nearby atom transmuting it into a new element and releasing positive net energy in the process. See A. Widom et al. "Ultra Low Momentum Neutron Catalyzed Nuclear Reactions on Metallic Hydride Surface," European Physical Journal C-Particles and Fields, 46, pp. 107-112, 2006, and U.S. Pat. No. 7,893,414 issued to Larsen et al. Unfortunately, such heavy electron production has only occurred in small random regions or patches of sample materials/devices. In terms of energy generation or gamma ray shielding, this limits the predictability and effectiveness of the device. Further, random-patch heavy electron production limits the amount of positive net energy that is produced to limit the efficiency of the device in an energy generation application. [0007] Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method of making a device that produces heavy electrons. [0021] ...The present invention provides a method of making devices that can produce heavy electrons in a predictable/controllable fashion across an entire surface or volume of the device. In general, device 10 includes a selected material system 12 that is incorporated onto/into a tuned structure 14 that supports propagation of SPPs and resulting heavy electron production that is sustained by device 10 across and/or through the entirety thereof. [0025]... That is, once established, SPP resonance will be self-sustaining so that large power output-to- input ratios will be possible from device 10.