US Patent Issued to Petram Technologies on May 27 for "Robust plasma blast probe tip" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,956, issued on May 27, was assigned to Petram Technologies Inc. (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Robust plasma blast probe tip" was invented by Nicholas Magnotti (Boston) and Frank A. Magnotti II (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and apparatus for plasma blasting comprises a borehole, with a novel blast probe, the probe comprising a high voltage electrode and a ground casing tube with a ground and/or electrode deflector. The ground and/or electrode deflector focuses a plasma blast through openings in the probe, directing the blast force away from the ends of the probe, wherein at least a portion of the high voltage elec...