ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,125, issued on Sept. 9.
"Reciprocating magnetic motor" was invented by Randy Questad (Battle Ground, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic reciprocating motor that has a vertically aligned stack of three magnet assemblies having a top and bottom fixed rotational magnet assembly, and a central reciprocating magnet assembly, connected to a crankshaft. The rotation of the top and bottom fixed magnet assemblies by a polarity switching means, changes their polarity with respect to the reciprocating magnet assembly's polarity. Thus, rotating the fixed magnets exerts either a magnetic pulling force or a magnetic pushing force on ...