ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,850, issued on Oct. 28.
"Electrostatic generator" was invented by Jerry Semer (Fremont, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The generator has three main parts. The first is a charged particle source. The second is a static electric field. The third is a collector connected to the ground or a capacitor. The first species has a wire, the collector, from the ground to the ion source. In the second species, the wire acts as a collector or is attached to the collector. The charged particle source can be any method that can produce ions. The electrostatic field can be the field of the Earth or a static field. The collector is attached to a...