US Patent Issued to Zap Energy on April 22 for "Methods and systems for increasing energy output in Z-pinch plasma confinement system" (Colorado, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,468, issued on April 22, was assigned to Zap Energy Inc. (Everett, Wash.).

"Methods and systems for increasing energy output in Z-pinch plasma confinement system" was invented by Peter H. Stoltz (Denver), Eric T. Meier (Seattle), Uri Shumlak (Seattle) and Brian A. Nelson (Edmonds, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for increasing energy output from Z-pinch and other plasma confinement systems. In one example, a system may include memory storing instructions that, if executed by one or more processors, cause the system to adjust one or more parameters to generate a magnetic field which is sufficiently...