US Patent Issued to Blue Laser Fusion on April 7 for "Fuel pellet configured with internal reflection for an inertial fusion reaction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,527, issued on April 7, was assigned to Blue Laser Fusion Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Fuel pellet configured with internal reflection for an inertial fusion reaction" was invented by Shuji Nakamura (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Hiroaki Ohta (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fuel pellet device for a fusion reaction. The fuel pellet including a core region comprises a fuel material, an ablator material configured surrounding the core region and an intermediary material comprising a metal material configured to absorb a laser light beam and generate an x-ray. The pellet also has a material comprising a structure overlying the...