US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Oct. 21 for "Pulsed plasma thrusters with conductive liquid sacrificial electrode(s)" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,989, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Pulsed plasma thrusters with conductive liquid sacrificial electrode(s)" was invented by Robert S. Martin (Delafield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conductive liquid-fed pulsed plasma thruster includes a first electrode having a conductive solid portion and a conductive liquid portion, a second electrode separated from the first electrode to define an ignition space therebetween, at least one electric insulator separating the first and second electrodes, and a conductive-liquid passa...