ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,421, issued on April 22.
"Methods and apparatuses for producing ultra-strong magnetic fields, and propulsion systems and methods utilizing planetary magnetic fields" was invented by Brian Faircloth (Evergreen, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples herein provide a method for generating a magnetic field. The method may include accumulating positive charges at a first electrode; accumulating negative charges at a second electrode; and rotating the first electrode relative to the second electrode so as to induce a relative angular velocity between the positive charges and the negative charges and thus generate a magnetic fie...