First a warning, , If your trying to build an cold fusion device for profit via patents you may want to skip this article. Otherwise you will have first hand knowledge of prior art.
If you curious like me and just want to understand how things work, then this is probably an interesting read. I stumbled on this link from some chain of discussion that was occurring when the Defkalion demonstration was running, and someone mentioned that there was a patent already on the device. This is a international patent issued by WIPO to Pekka Soininen for a device described as a "THERMAL-ENERGY PRODUCING SYSTEM AND METHOD". It looks exactly like the Defkalion reactor, down to the spark plugs, the metal hydrides and the Rydberg atoms. International Publication Number WO 2013/076378 A2. http://www.roxit.ax/FinsktLENRpatent.pdf I would think that if Rosi and Defkalion are not currently holding patents on their technology, this could be very disruptive towards their business plans. Also, does any know who Pekka Soininen is. He seems to be a new name in the LENR field (at least to me). Best regards
