US Patent Issued to University of Southern California on May 20 for "System and method for magnetically induced electrospray thrusters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,925, issued on May 20, was assigned to University of Southern California (Los Angeles).

"System and method for magnetically induced electrospray thrusters" was invented by Robert Antypas (Los Angeles) and Joseph Wang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for emitting an electrospray of ionized particles is disclosed, comprising a reservoir, an emitter in communication with the reservoir and having openings, wherein the openings are configured to permit release of the liquid media therefrom in response to a dynamic magnetic field; and an element for generating a dynamic magnetic field that runs through the em...