US Patent Issued to LUNAR HELIUM-3 MINING on Feb. 18 for "Ionized gas separation arrangement" (Arizona, Colorado, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,735, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to LUNAR HELIUM-3 MINING LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Ionized gas separation arrangement" was invented by Chris Salvino (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Andrew Dummer (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Paul A Beatty (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a gas separation arrangement for separating and containing various types of gas from a collection chamber based on their different atomic masses. The chamber is connected to an ion diverter via a valve that when open permits the various types of gas to migrate from the collection chamber to an ionizer where the gas is ionized. The ionized gas is a...