Concerning the Q-pulse and Brillouin's IP which is featured on Next Big
Future today --
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/05/brillouin-energy-update-on-funding-and-continued-work.html
There is an important Patent from Dardik, El-Boher et al entitled
"Pulsed low energy nuclear reaction power generators" EP 1656678 B1
with a grant date of 2004. This is also known as the "superwave"patent.
It is similar and precedes the Brillouin IP - and possibly could rain on
the Godes parade, if it turns out that structured waveforms are the key
to success.
The Dardik patent was assigned to Energetics LLC, of Israel - which is
now reportedly out of business, and it would have been in effect for 20
years, until 2024. However, the superwave patent was allowed to lapse
around 2011 for non-payment of fees. The chief researcher at Energetics,
Arik El Boher achieved high gain in one "hero experiment" which sadly
was not reproducible, and everyone assumed that was the end of the
story... another casualty in pursuit of cold fusion. His gain was much
higher than anything reported by Brillouin.
However, this is where it gets interesting. About 2016, Energetics or
someone who is operating on behalf of the defunct company, decided to
renew and pay the back fees and penalties on the Intentional Patent -
and now it is in force once again. The unknown party must have paid a
premium to get the coverage active again, as Intentional fees are high,
which makes one wonder who the mystery IP owner is now.
Steve Krivit reported that Energetics, LLC is defunct. See page 9 in his
recent excellent white paper.
newenergytimes.com/v2/wp/Krivit-White-Paper-LENR-Power-20170223.pdf
I have seen no confirmation of Energetics being purchased by someone
else, but obviously another party has stepped in on the IP. A further
interesting detail is that Violante in Italy, the Texas Tech group, and
also Abundo in Italy are reported to be using a similar approach of
highly structured waveforms in the range of 100 kHz and up, which could
be seen as technically infringing and/or attempting to get around the
Dardik patent. All these groups and Brillouin are said to have positive
results, but one suspects that a cloud over the IP will keep information
scarce on the topic of "superwaves" even if "Q-pulse" is a thin disguise
for the same thing.
