US Patent Issued to LUNAR HELIUM-3 MINING on Oct. 7 for "Electrostatic filtration arrangement" (Arizona, California, Colorado, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,251, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LUNAR HELIUM-3 MINING LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Electrostatic filtration 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 an electrostatic filter arrangement. An ionizing element (screen or bar, for example) generates one or more electron curtains that charge neutral dust particles, which are then drawn to paired conductive plates via e...