US Patent Issued to National Cheng Kung University on Aug. 19 for "Magnetic multi-pole propulsion array system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,410, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Magnetic multi-pole propulsion array system" was invented by Yueh-Heng Li (Tainan, Taiwan), Yu-Ting Wu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Chao-Wei Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lo (Tainan, Taiwan), Hsun-Chen Hsieh (Chiayi, Taiwan), Ping-Han Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Yi-Long Huang (Changhua County, Taiwan), Sheng-Wen Liu (Tainan, Taiwan) and Wei-Cheng Lien (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic multi-pole propulsion array system is applied to at least one external cathode and includes a plurality of magnetic multi-pole thrusters connecte...