ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,186, issued on April 14, was assigned to Equilibria Power (Grant, Fla.).

"Plasma magneto-inertial fusion arrangement that compensates for timing variations among pulsed power-driven electromagnetic particle accelerators" was invented by Mark B. Moffett (Grant, Fla.) and David L. Chesny (Satellite Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for plasma magneto-inertial fusion. A trigger breakdown time is determined for each of a plurality of solid-state switch arrays by measuring a duration time from initiation of a control signal to plasma formation for each of a plurality of pulsed power driven electromagnetic particle accel...