US Patent Issued to Novatron Fusion Group on Sept. 15 for "Magnetic mirror machine" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,385, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Novatron Fusion Group AB (Bromma, Sweden).

"Magnetic mirror machine" was invented by Jan Jaderberg (Spanga, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic mirror machine (2100; 2200; 3100; 3200) for plasma confinement comprises a plurality of longitudinally disposed superconductor coils (2104, 2105, 2106a, 2106b) arranged for producing an open-field-line plasma confinement area (2106), said plasma confinement area (2106) at each of two ends being limited by a respective mirror area (2108) of increased magnetic flux density relative to a central area (2110) of said plasma confinement area (2...