Jones- The Gupta and Jacobs patent was not missed by R. Mills. Look at the references cited at the end of the 1991 patent document. Randy was quick to pick up on the technology shortly after the patent lapsed in 1999. It may be that Gupta and Jacobs were bought out by somebody or the technology was declared dark at the time the patent lapsed. That would be consistent with actions to poo-poo the Pd D ideas by the military- industrial complex.
Note the related GE and M-D patents (reference by the Gupta-Jacobs patent) granted in the early 1960’s. Interestingly, I remember a flare of activity reported by a physics friend in the 1964-65 timeframe concerning a newly found heavy water—not deuterium oxide—with unusual properties. However, the flickering flame of activity was extinguished in less than a week as I recall. Bob Cook Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: Jones Beene<mailto:jone...@pacbell.net> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 10:45 AM To: Vortex List<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com> Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Gupta Patent of early 1989 One reason for the post below concerns the apparent evolution of Gupta's research, in which a superior lithium ion battery is the result. http://electrovaya.com/ The company is Ectrovaya - which is Canadian... and their battery recently won a competition with other advanced batteries... yup, they are apparently superior to the new battery offering of Tesla. Not sure if there is a contribution from LENR or not. But batteries could be the backdoor for commercialization ... All those lithium battery meltdowns were indeed- a message. > Here is a strange bit of history which seems to have been somehow > overlooked and misplaced. It almost reads like "alternate facts".... > > The Fleischmann/ Pons announcement of cold fusion happened on March > 23, 1989. Ostensibly this date was forced on them by concerns about > the competing work from Steven Jones at BYU, but there was another > more specific threat. Perhaps their rush was not BYU but concern over > a competing line of research which Fleischmann had participated in, > going all the way back to the 1970s. These were palladium metal > lattice experiments described by B. Dandapani (and Fleischmann as > coauthor) in the Journal of Electronal. Chemistry, 39, in 1972 and later. > > On March 31, 1989 - 8 days after the hurried Utah announcement the > following patent was actually filed by Gupta and Jacobs in the USA, > and it was soon GRANTED ! And then it was almost completely ignored > today, even though it undercuts the IP claims of others and actually > mentions "dense hydrogen" as the operative mechanism. Yet, the IP was > not commercially useful, probably due to the high cost of palladium. > It is now in the public domain. > > "Process and apparatus for generating high density hydrogen in a > matrix" US 4986887 > > https://www.google.com/patents/US4986887 > > That's right - the first LENR filing was actually granted by the > Patent Office - so there is no wonder why later filings did not succeed. > > There was and still is - a lot of whining going on - but no evidence > of a "grand conspiracy" by insiders in Hot Fusion, although they did > not agree there was a breakthrough. Plus, there is no way Gupta could > have based his IP on "stealing the P&F work" since it normally takes > months to draft a decent patent filing and several days to get it to > USPTO by mail, and Gupta had published on the subject before 1989. > > We now understand why almost everyone else's patent application was > denied or languished, and it has nothing to do with violating the Laws > of Physics or Thermodynamics, nor to a hostile hot fusion establishment. > > There was, in fact, a valid patent granted for LENR. > >
