ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,492, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to RUBICON ENERGY BV (Wijchen, Netherlands).

"Permanent magnet energy convertor" was invented by Lars Adolf Hendrik Dirks (Wijchen, Netherlands), Peter Mosli (Wijchen, Netherlands), Rene Rudolf Durrer (Wijchen, Netherlands) and Roger Beda Murer (Wijchen, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A permanent magnet energy converter is described wherein the converter comprises: a stator structure including a stator magnet having a spiral geometry; the stator magnet having a U-shaped cross-section, a first leg of the U-shaped cross-section forming a first magnetic pole and a second leg of the U-shap...