ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,374, issued on July 28, was assigned to SPACE AGE TECNOLOGIES LLC (Poquoson, Va.).
"Bessel tube for driving gaseous molecules and nanoparticles into linear motion" was invented by Sang H. Choi (Poquoson, Va.), Han Samuel Choi (Orlando, Fla.), Robert W. Moses (Poquoson, Va.) and Kyeong Ja Kim (Vallejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method that creates linear motion or acceleration of fine particles and molecules are described. The device includes a plurality of ring electrodes arranged along an axis so that a cylindrical harmonic field is formed when electrical voltage is applied separately to each ring of the plu...