ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,804, issued on June 24.
"Apparatus for ionizing and accelerating a fluid" was invented by Sarantis Logothetis Randell (Winnipeg, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for ionizing and accelerating a fluid comprises at least a pair of spaced-apart electrodes arranged coaxially and each comprising a planar, electrically conductive body locating a plurality of apertures arranged to substantially uniformly distribute electric charge across the body and to permit passage of the particles of the fluid therethrough. At least a leading one of the electrodes of the adjacent pair includes one or more electrically conductive projec...