US Patent Issued to LUNAR HELIUM-3 MINING on Nov. 25 for "Particle repelling arrangement" (Arizona, California, Colorado, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,980, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LUNAR HELIUM-3 MINING LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Particle repelling arrangement" was invented by Chris Salvino (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Drew F DeJarnette (San Diego), Paul A Beatty (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Andrew Dummer (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a particle filtration system that protects a gas segregation region from lunar regolith dust by using, among other filtration elements, an integrated electromagnetic and electrostatic dust repelling system. The system includes a particle intake chamber with a particle repelling screen comprising a planar array of conduct...