As I thought, this is an application not a granted patent. The confusion arises because the inventor in the text of the Abstract calls it a Patent but a closer look shows that to be a mischaracterization. There is a publication date for an Abstract as well as for a Patent.
The inventor does have one granted patent - listed here (which Nigel will find interesting) https://patents.justia.com/inventor/victor-m-villalobos The legal status of this disclosure could be of more than passing interest for other fields beside batteries – if a Patent is granted in the USA which specifies ZPE or the Casimir force as the source of power. AFAIK a claim for ZPE has not been granted before but Casimir is on firmer ground. Logically it makes perfect sense that porous MLG (multi layer graphene) of an electrode would benefit from the Casimir if the porosity is of the correct dimensions (the DCE or dynamical Casimir effect is essentially proved). Although ZPE/ZPF and the Casimir force are probably different aspects of the same phenomena, the Casimir has been shown to be useful in recent peer- reviewed papers. The attorney or patent agent for Villalobos is pushing the boundaries by adding more detail than is necessary - and it could be a costly gamble. From: MJ It can be downloaded here: http://www.pat2pdf.org/patents/pat20180059704.pdf Mark Jordan Nigel Dyer wrote: It appears to be a real patent, finally published on March 1st https://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair Nigel JonesBeene wrote: Strange that there is no patent number – only an application number but they call it a patent. Justia has been know to screw up in the past and the Inventor: Victor M. Villalobos has claimed fantastical inventions before. I would love to see this proved with an actual experiment - but as of now, serious doubts are raised. Of course, it is possible that Goodenough’s device relates to ZPE and this inventor could lay claim to it -- but will we ever know what is going on scinetifically, now that there are legal ramifications? In the past USPTO would never grant a patent on anything to do with ZPE or cold fusion, but things change… Anyway this is curious – shall we say…? From: Nigel Dyer And there is this 'Zero Point Energy Magnetic Battery' https://patents.justia.com/patent/20180059704 Nigel JonesBeene wrote: The recent announcement from University of Texas of a far more powerful solid-state "glass” battery technology from John Goodenough's lab has yet to sink in for most of the scientific community. There is evidence of a ten-fold increase in energy density between charges, so long as there are rest periods. IOW the device seems to recharge itself when given the time to do so. The extreme interest in this technology is due to the reputation of Goodenough, the inventor the Li-ion battery in several versions including the one used by the Tesla automobile. Goodenough is still active in the field at 94 years of age and that is another miracle in this unfolding story about a device that seems to defy physics. Curiously, this technology is reminiscent of EESTOR which is just down the road and still operating (under the radar) after disappointing dozens of VCs with millions of dollar spent and no product. Must be something in the water down there in the Lone Star state, even though both technologies are water free. Similarly to that EESTOR fiasco, the reaction among the “experts” in the battery field strong skepticism tinged with jealousy. But Goodenough and his reputation makes things more interesting this time around. The growing conclusion from published early data is that this battery breaks the laws of thermodynamics and that is the most significant aspect of story from our perspective… but in truth the gain could be coming from ambient heat and not the chemicals in device – which technically is more like a self-charging capacitor than a redox battery. This sounds a bit like “water memory” in that we have mobile molecules that want to return to a earlier state even after giving up energy and dropping to a more stable state. Although lithium is one of the chemicals, sodium works as well or better so this is apparently not anything nuclear with respect to Li, or is it? The glass electrolyte apparently contains lithium, even in the case of sodium as the charge carrier. Nor is dense hydrogen involved (unless it is trade secret). The one critical material required is an alkali from Column 1, which indicates that the manipulation of loosely bound electrons is the key. Many here on vortex might remember back in the previous century there were experiments and much talk about self-charging capacitors. Even data. This not a new claim and in fact there is little doubt that there are anomalies when you get to level of hundreds of Farads in a small area, which is due to some kind of paradigm shit … but the conservative opinion remains that these are measurement problems and not thermodynamic violations. Given everything that is unfolding, it is even likely that there will be a fit between the extreme dielectrics of EESTOR and the glass electrode of Goodenough. I would like to see a merger of the two. Ultra dielectrics have not gone away. Bottom line: Imagine the repercussions of an electric car with ten times less battery cost than the new Tesla… or even four time less. The market for crude oil would crash, no? That possibility will ruffle some feathers, especially in Texas where even students are armed. If I were John Goodenough, I would insist on adding some guards around the Texas Materials Institute and more security. He has a few good years left, it would seem. The only bad news from this technology is that there will not be very much demand for LENR if you can produce a low cost battery which recharges itself … unless of course the recharging is itself a form of LENR. This is not ruled out.
