ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,696, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Unspace LLC (Houston).

"Semi-coherent gravitational wave beam generation and related apparatus, systems, and methods" was invented by Phillip Scott Lentz (Port Aransas, Texas), Jonathan Crombe (Spring, Texas), Kevin Stephens Jr. (Houston) and Evan Laske (League City, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to generation of a semi-coherent gravitational wave beam and related apparatus, systems, and methods, such as for at least gravitational wave communication. In one or more embodiments, a gravitational wave generator includes a generator frame, and a first r...