US Patent Issued to University of New Hampshire on June 23 for "Method of converging plasma pistons" (New Hampshire Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,096, issued on June 23, was assigned to University of New Hampshire (Durham, N.H.).

"Method of converging plasma pistons" was invented by James J. Connell (Durham, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic confinement system includes a magnetic mirror device that includes a chamber to hold a target plasma and a coil arrangement to generate a magnetic field configuration in the chamber to confine the target plasma in cylindrically-symmetric form in the chamber, the magnetic field configuration having open ends. The magnetic confinement system further includes plasma guns to generate plasma pistons and project the plasma pistons a...