US Patent Issued to Thomas Alexander Johnson on Sept. 29 for "Apparatus and methods for generating force in electromagnetic systems" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,607, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Thomas Alexander Johnson (Evergreen, Colo.).

"Apparatus and methods for generating force in electromagnetic systems" was invented by Thomas Alexander Johnson (Evergreen, Colo.) and Gary C. Berkowitz (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods of construction and use to produce linear, rotational or counter-rotational motion, acceleration, and actuation by the use of moveable ferromagnetic, electromagnetic, conductive, or permanent magnetic objects. The moveable objects are oriented to produce or to be acted upon by asymmetric electromagnetic field distrib...