US Patent Issued to TAE TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 30 for "System and methods for forming and maintaining high energy and temperature FRC plasma via spheromak merging and neutral beam injection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,840, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TAE TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

"System and methods for forming and maintaining high energy and temperature FRC plasma via spheromak merging and neutral beam injection" was invented by Hiroshi Gota (Irvine, Calif.) and Tashiki Tajima (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement chamber, two divertor chambers coupled to the chamber, and two diametrically opposed spheromak injectors coupled to the divertor chambers. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned al...