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Plasma reactor
- Patent number 12,296,988
- Issue date May 13, 2025
- Scott Hughan Rennie
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Ion propulsion plasma cathode assembly
- Patent number 12,292,039
- Issue date May 6, 2025
- Bernard K Vancil
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Turbomolecular air-scoop for satellite air-breathing electric propu...
- Patent number 12,286,943
- Issue date Apr 29, 2025
- Viridian Space Corporation
- Matthew S. Feldman
- F02 - COMBUSTION ENGINES HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
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Electrically powered supersonic and hypersonic propulsor
- Patent number 12,286,942
- Issue date Apr 29, 2025
- ILIGHT INC.
- David Anthony Amels
- F02 - COMBUSTION ENGINES HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS
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Method for controlling an ion thruster, and ion thruster system
- Patent number 12,270,388
- Issue date Apr 8, 2025
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Jacques Gierak
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Reactors for plasma assisted treatment of powder
- Patent number 12,252,275
- Issue date Mar 18, 2025
- Nano-Product Engineering, LLC
- Vladimir Gorokhovsky
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Fiber-fed advanced pulsed plasma thruster (FPPT)
- Patent number 12,209,577
- Issue date Jan 28, 2025
- CU Aerospace, LLC
- Curtis Woodruff
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Plasma propulsion systems and associated systems and methods
- Patent number 12,209,576
- Issue date Jan 28, 2025
- Electric Sky Holdings, Inc.
- Jeffrey Greason
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Reconfigurable power processing unit for spacecraft operations
- Patent number 12,202,630
- Issue date Jan 21, 2025
- AEROJET ROCKETDYNE, INC.
- Erich H. Soendker
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Propellant injector system for plasma production devices and thrusters
- Patent number 12,195,205
- Issue date Jan 14, 2025
- PHASE FOUR, INC.
- David Tsai
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Plasma engine with leptonic energy source
- Patent number 12,188,456
- Issue date Jan 7, 2025
- Lockheed Martin Corporation
- Edward Henry Allen
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Neutralizer for an ion thruster of a spacecraft
- Patent number 12,168,976
- Issue date Dec 17, 2024
- ENPULSION GmbH
- David Krejci
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Direct energy converter for axisymmetric mirror fusion reactor
- Patent number 12,166,398
- Issue date Dec 10, 2024
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Cary Brett Forest
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
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Propulsion system for spacecraft
- Patent number 12,157,586
- Issue date Dec 3, 2024
- ORBION SPACE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Lyon B. King
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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High-temperature superconducting plasma thruster system having vari...
- Patent number 12,156,323
- Issue date Nov 26, 2024
- Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Jinxing Zheng
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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System and method to maintain vacuum, or to selectively exclude/adm...
- Patent number 12,140,125
- Issue date Nov 12, 2024
- Raytheon Company
- Gary A. Frazier
- B64 - AIRCRAFT AVIATION COSMONAUTICS
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Plasma thruster with birdcage antenna
- Patent number 12,140,126
- Issue date Nov 12, 2024
- Universitat Stuttgart
- Francesco Romano
- B33 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
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Fusion thruster
- Patent number 12,129,838
- Issue date Oct 29, 2024
- Christopher Craddock
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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NTAC augmented nuclear electric propulsion and/or nuclear thermal p...
- Patent number 12,122,539
- Issue date Oct 22, 2024
- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF NASA.
- Sang H. Choi
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
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Propellant apparatus
- Patent number 12,104,583
- Issue date Oct 1, 2024
- Accion Systems, Inc.
- Louis Perna
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Pulsed-plasma-discharge engine and its method of operation
- Patent number 12,092,055
- Issue date Sep 17, 2024
- Sharp Pulse Corp.
- Igor Simon Alexandroff
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Thermally managed electric propulsion systems
- Patent number 12,078,153
- Issue date Sep 3, 2024
- California Institute of Technology
- Scott N Roberts
- B33 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
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Microplasma-based heaterless, insertless cathode
- Patent number 12,078,154
- Issue date Sep 3, 2024
- The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the...
- Kunning Gabriel Xu
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Chamber bottom for a plasma thruster
- Patent number 12,066,014
- Issue date Aug 20, 2024
- SAFRAN SPACECRAFT PROPULSION
- Julien Pierre Alain Vaudolon
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Magnetic circuit for creating a magnetic field in a main annular io...
- Patent number 12,055,132
- Issue date Aug 6, 2024
- Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse
- Youness Rtimi
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Segmented wall-less hall thruster
- Patent number 12,049,878
- Issue date Jul 30, 2024
- The Trustees of Princeton University
- Jacob Simmonds
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Dual propellant microwave electrothermal propulsion systems
- Patent number 12,044,221
- Issue date Jul 23, 2024
- Robert Alan Hickman
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Two-stage low-power and high-thrust to power electric propulsion sy...
- Patent number 12,044,220
- Issue date Jul 23, 2024
- The George Washington University
- Michael Keidar
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Propellant tank with on-off control system for the flow of propella...
- Patent number 12,031,528
- Issue date Jul 9, 2024
- THRUSTME
- Dmytro Rafalskyi
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Charging mitigation device and electric discharge avoidance method
- Patent number 12,025,110
- Issue date Jul 2, 2024
- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Teppei Okumura
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...

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C/C COMPOSITE AND ION ENGINE GRID
- Publication number 20250146196
- Publication date May 8, 2025
- Toyo Tanso Co., Ltd
- Toshiharu HIRAOKA
- D10 - INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBLASSES OF SECTION D, RELATING TO TEX...
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Device and method for generating ions using a plasma
- Publication number 20250151188
- Publication date May 8, 2025
- Leibniz-Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung e.V.
- Frank SCHOLZE
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Air-Breathing Plasma Thruster
- Publication number 20250108939
- Publication date Apr 3, 2025
- UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
- Yvegeny Raitses
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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PULSED-PLASMA THRUSTER USING UNBALANCED THETA-PINCH
- Publication number 20250101965
- Publication date Mar 27, 2025
- National Cheng Kung University
- Po-Yu CHANG
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Direct Energy Converter for Axisymmetric Mirror Fusion Reactor
- Publication number 20250079964
- Publication date Mar 6, 2025
- Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
- Cary Brett Forest
- G21 - NUCLEAR PHYSICS NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
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PROPULSION APPARATUS
- Publication number 20250035094
- Publication date Jan 30, 2025
- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
- Takanori WASHIRO
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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APPARATUS FOR A MODULAR PLASMA REACTOR AND METHOD OF USE
- Publication number 20250020112
- Publication date Jan 16, 2025
- Nox Box Technologies LLC
- Joseph E. Lewis
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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THRUST-QUANTITATIVELY-CONTROLLABLE AND SELF-NEUTRALIZABLE KAUFMAN I...
- Publication number 20240418157
- Publication date Dec 19, 2024
- Space Engineering University
- Siyin ZHOU
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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HALL-EFFECT THRUSTER SYSTEM WITH APPLIED COUNTER-TORQUE
- Publication number 20240401576
- Publication date Dec 5, 2024
- The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Braden Oh
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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DUCTED ELECTROAERODYNAMIC THRUSTERS
- Publication number 20240392762
- Publication date Nov 28, 2024
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Steven Barrett
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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AIR-BREATHING PLASMA JET ENGINE
- Publication number 20240392761
- Publication date Nov 28, 2024
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Lukas GRABER
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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ELECTRODE SYSTEM AND CONTROL MECHANISM FOR ENGINES
- Publication number 20240392760
- Publication date Nov 28, 2024
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Lukas Graber
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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SUPER HIGH FREQUENCY PROPULSOR (FARADAY DRIVE)
- Publication number 20240376874
- Publication date Nov 14, 2024
- Corey HENDRIKS
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Control Device And Plasma Energy Protective Apparatus For An Ion Th...
- Publication number 20240369048
- Publication date Nov 7, 2024
- TESAT SPACECOM GMBH & CO. KG
- Alexander Lampe
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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SPACECRAFT COMPRISING AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE AND AN ORIENTATION SYSTE...
- Publication number 20240359830
- Publication date Oct 31, 2024
- AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
- Bernard DELTOUR
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROPULSION OF AN OBJECT IN A VACUUM
- Publication number 20240309858
- Publication date Sep 19, 2024
- Orbital Arc Corporation
- Jonathan Huffman
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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ELECTROSPRAY EMISSION APPARATUS
- Publication number 20240263623
- Publication date Aug 8, 2024
- Accion Systems, Inc.
- Adam Zachar
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Magnetic Flux Engine for Spacecraft Propulsion
- Publication number 20240246700
- Publication date Jul 25, 2024
- Overawe, LLC
- Encarnacion Gonzalez
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Thermal Management System for Spacecraft Thruster
- Publication number 20240240622
- Publication date Jul 18, 2024
- Morgan Chambard
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Magnetic Flux Engine for Spacecraft Propulsion
- Publication number 20240228065
- Publication date Jul 11, 2024
- Overawe, LLC
- Encarnacion Gonzalez
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING PLASMA THRUSTER SYSTEM HAVING VARI...
- Publication number 20240237185
- Publication date Jul 11, 2024
- Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- JINXING ZHENG
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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Magnetic Flux Engine for Spacecraft Propulsion
- Publication number 20240190589
- Publication date Jun 13, 2024
- Overawe, LLC
- Encarnacion Gonzalez
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
Information Patent Application
Magnetic Flux Engine for Spacecraft Propulsion
- Publication number 20240182188
- Publication date Jun 6, 2024
- Overawe, LLC
- Encarnacion Gonzalez
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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PLASMA PROPULSION SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS
- Publication number 20240175428
- Publication date May 30, 2024
- Electric Sky Holdings, Inc.
- Jeffrey Greason
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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SPACECRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION
- Publication number 20240125308
- Publication date Apr 18, 2024
- ICEYE Oy
- Jakub KORCZYC
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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SELF-NEUTRALIZING AIR-BREATHING PLASMA THRUSTER
- Publication number 20240117797
- Publication date Apr 11, 2024
- THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- Michael KEIDAR
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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VEHICLE TRACTION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM
- Publication number 20240092435
- Publication date Mar 21, 2024
- KTISIS, LLC
- Kwing Shun Chue
- B60 - VEHICLES IN GENERAL
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ROTATIONAL IONIC ENGINE WITH TOROIDAL COUNTER ELECTRODE
- Publication number 20240068454
- Publication date Feb 29, 2024
- The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
- Adrian Ieta
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...
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GRAPHITE/HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE BIMATERIALS FOR ELECTRIC PROPULSION
- Publication number 20240068453
- Publication date Feb 29, 2024
- California Institute of Technology
- Celia S. CHARI
- C01 - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
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Apparatus for Ionizing and Accelerating a Fluid
- Publication number 20240060481
- Publication date Feb 22, 2024
- Sarantis Logothetis Randell
- F03 - MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS WIND, SPRING WEIGHT AND MISCELLANEOUS M...

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Plasma reactor

Ion propulsion plasma cathode assembly

Turbomolecular air-scoop for satellite air-breathing electric propu...

Electrically powered supersonic and hypersonic propulsor

Method for controlling an ion thruster, and ion thruster system

Reactors for plasma assisted treatment of powder

Fiber-fed advanced pulsed plasma thruster (FPPT)

Plasma propulsion systems and associated systems and methods

Reconfigurable power processing unit for spacecraft operations

Propellant injector system for plasma production devices and thrusters

Plasma engine with leptonic energy source

Neutralizer for an ion thruster of a spacecraft

Direct energy converter for axisymmetric mirror fusion reactor

Propulsion system for spacecraft

High-temperature superconducting plasma thruster system having vari...

System and method to maintain vacuum, or to selectively exclude/adm...

Plasma thruster with birdcage antenna

Fusion thruster

NTAC augmented nuclear electric propulsion and/or nuclear thermal p...

Propellant apparatus

Pulsed-plasma-discharge engine and its method of operation

Thermally managed electric propulsion systems

Microplasma-based heaterless, insertless cathode

Chamber bottom for a plasma thruster

Magnetic circuit for creating a magnetic field in a main annular io...

Segmented wall-less hall thruster

Dual propellant microwave electrothermal propulsion systems

Two-stage low-power and high-thrust to power electric propulsion sy...

Propellant tank with on-off control system for the flow of propella...

Charging mitigation device and electric discharge avoidance method

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

C/C COMPOSITE AND ION ENGINE GRID

Device and method for generating ions using a plasma

Air-Breathing Plasma Thruster

PULSED-PLASMA THRUSTER USING UNBALANCED THETA-PINCH

Direct Energy Converter for Axisymmetric Mirror Fusion Reactor

PROPULSION APPARATUS

APPARATUS FOR A MODULAR PLASMA REACTOR AND METHOD OF USE

THRUST-QUANTITATIVELY-CONTROLLABLE AND SELF-NEUTRALIZABLE KAUFMAN I...

HALL-EFFECT THRUSTER SYSTEM WITH APPLIED COUNTER-TORQUE

DUCTED ELECTROAERODYNAMIC THRUSTERS

AIR-BREATHING PLASMA JET ENGINE

ELECTRODE SYSTEM AND CONTROL MECHANISM FOR ENGINES

SUPER HIGH FREQUENCY PROPULSOR (FARADAY DRIVE)

Control Device And Plasma Energy Protective Apparatus For An Ion Th...

SPACECRAFT COMPRISING AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE AND AN ORIENTATION SYSTE...

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROPULSION OF AN OBJECT IN A VACUUM

ELECTROSPRAY EMISSION APPARATUS

Magnetic Flux Engine for Spacecraft Propulsion

Thermal Management System for Spacecraft Thruster

Magnetic Flux Engine for Spacecraft Propulsion

HIGH-TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTING PLASMA THRUSTER SYSTEM HAVING VARI...

Magnetic Flux Engine for Spacecraft Propulsion

Magnetic Flux Engine for Spacecraft Propulsion

PLASMA PROPULSION SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS

SPACECRAFT PROPULSION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF OPERATION

SELF-NEUTRALIZING AIR-BREATHING PLASMA THRUSTER

VEHICLE TRACTION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM

ROTATIONAL IONIC ENGINE WITH TOROIDAL COUNTER ELECTRODE

GRAPHITE/HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE BIMATERIALS FOR ELECTRIC PROPULSION

Apparatus for Ionizing and Accelerating a Fluid