US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on Sept. 9 for "Lightning induction system and method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,948, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lightning induction system and method therefor" was invented by Masato Maruyama (Musashino, Japan), Jun Kato (Musashino, Japan), Toshihisa Masuda (Musashino, Japan) and Naomichi Nakamura (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightning induction system includes a plurality of flight vehicles 3 that fly between a lightning originating point 1 in the sky where lightning is generated and a ground surface 2. The flight vehicles 3 each include: a flight unit 10 that generates lift force and propulsion force; a conductor cable 20 that is eng...