Can an inventor patent a UFO-like space craft capable of traveling at extreme speeds across land, water, and air by using an inertial mass reduction device?
On April 28, 2016, military inventor and researcher, Salvatore Cezar Pais, filed patent application 15/141,270 for a UFO-like space craft capable of traveling at extreme speeds using an inertial mass reduction device. Several years later, on December 4, 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent for the invention to the United States Secretary of Navy (U.S. Patent No. 10,244,532 B2).
The Patent describes a UFO-like space craft capable of stealthily navigating air, space, and water mediums, while enclosed in a protective vacuum sheath. Specifically, the craft includes an inner resonant cavity wall, an outer resonant cavity, and microwave emitters. The outer resonant cavity wall and the inner resonant cavity wall combine together to form a resonant cavity. A noble gas, such as xenon, fills the cavity used for the plasma phase transition aspect of symmetry-breaking for amplification of the Prigogine effect. Per the patent, the microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the outer resonant cavity wall to vibrate in an accelerated mode and create a local polarized vacuum outside the outer resonant cavity wall. This allows the craft to propel itself at extreme rates of speed by reducing the craft’s inertia, or resistance to motion.
The patent further describes a craft designed to operate in space, sea, or land environments. The patent includes an example of a hybrid aerospace/undersea craft (HAUC), which due to the physical mechanisms enabled with the inertial mass reduction device, can function as a submersible craft capable of extreme underwater speeds (lack of water-skin friction) and enhanced stealth capabilities (non-linear scattering of RF and sonar signals). Moreover, the patent provides that the “hybrid” craft would move with great ease through the air/space/water mediums, by being enclosed in a vacuum plasma bubble/sheath, due to the coupled effects of electromagnetic field-induced air/water particles repulsion and vacuum energy polarization. Furthermore, the highly complex patent describes methods of reducing mass using the generation of gravity waves, which were first detected 2016.
At first glance, it would seem a patent for such an invention would be kept secret from the general public given its military applications. The United States Patent and Trademark Office screens each patent application for subject matter detrimental to national security. The Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 requires the United States Patent and Trademark Office to impose a “secrecy order” on an application for an invention detrimental to national security. The secrecy order restricts disclosure of the invention and withholds the grant of a patent. Specifically, the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951 provides that whenever:
“publication or disclosure by the publication of an application or by the grant on an invention in which the Government has a property interest might, in the opinion of the interested Government agency, be detrimental to the national security, the Commissioner of Patents upon being so notified shall order that the invention be kept secret and shall withhold the publication of the application or the grant of a patent…”
A secrecy order prevents an inventor from receiving a patent for their invention. The United States Patent and Trademark Office sends a notice to the inventor which instructs the inventor that “the subject matter or any material information relevant to [the] application, including unpublished details of the invention, shall not be published or disclosed to any person not aware of the invention prior to the date of [the security] order, including any employee of the principals.” The secrecy order also prohibits an inventor from disclosing or publishing any information related to the invention disclosed in the patent application. Additionally, secrecy orders usually last for 1 year. Secrecy orders may be renewed for additional periods of up to 1 year. In order to renew secrecy orders, the government agency sponsoring the security order petitions to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, “that an affirmative determination has been made that the national interest continues so to require.” A secrecy order ends when the government agency sponsoring the secrecy order fails to renew the secrecy order, or when the government agency sponsoring the secrecy order notifies the United States Patent and Trademark Office that the disclosure of the invention is no longer deemed “detrimental to national security.” The United States Patent and Trademark Office may impose a secrecy order even when the inventor generates and owns the company without government sponsorship or support.
An inventor who’s invention is subject to a secrecy order has several options. First, an inventor has an option to appeal the decision by filing a petition to have the secrecy order withdrawn. Second, if a secrecy order delays an invention, the inventor may be subject to just compensation. An inventor also receives a term extension on a patent that was subject to a secrecy order. The term extension is for a day-per-day basis for the length of the secrecy order.
At the end of fiscal year 2018, 5,792 secrecy orders were in effect. Recently made public patents include a laser-tracking system, a warhead-production method, an anti-radar-jamming apparatus, and a stronger net.
Pais’ other patents include a Piezoelectricity-Induced Room Temperature Superconductor and a Gravity Wave Generator.