G21B 3/006
Fusion by impact
Official title: {Fusion by impact, e.g. cluster/beam interaction, ion beam collisions, impact on a target}
G21B3/006 (Fusion by impact) appears on 69 US grants and 168 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G21B- Granted patents
- 69
- Published applications
- 168
- Assignees
- 64
- Inventors
- 228
- Latest grant
- 16 Sep 2025
Filings by year
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| 2013 | 2 | 9 |
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| 2019 | 12 | 15 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14 |
| 2021 | 2 | 6 |
| 2022 | 5 | 9 |
| 2023 | 1 | 12 |
| 2024 | 2 | 10 |
| 2025 | 4 | 8 |
| 2026 | 0 | 11 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Ion transport16 Sep 2025US 12,417,852 B1Beam Alpha, Inc.
- Ion source and neutron generator24 Jun 2025US 12,342,447 B2SHINE Technologies, LLC
- Ion collider for nuclear fusion17 Jun 2025US 12,334,228 B2Cornell University
- Reactor for producing a nuclear fusion reaction27 May 2025US 12,315,644 B2
- Systems and methods for merging and compressing compact tori13 Feb 2024US 11,901,087 B2Tae Technologies, Inc.
- Device for the implementation of accelerated ion-based nuclear fusion reactions13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237529 A1
- Device for the implementation of accelerated ion-based nuclear fusion reactions13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237531 A1
- Devices and Methods for Creation of Exotic Vacuum Objects13 Aug 2026US 2026/0237588 A1Magnetic Miles, LLC
- Spin-Polarized Whispering Gallery Mode Fusion with Anisotropic Particle Emission18 Jun 2026US 2026/0171272 A1
- System and Method for Energy Recovery in a Beam Collider7 May 2026US 2026/0128183 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for creating and controlling nuclear fusion reactions90US 5,160,695 AQed · 1992
- Directed beam fusion reaction with ion spin alignment75US 4,390,494 AEnergy Profiles, Inc. · 1983
- Thermonuclear fusion system72US 4,246,067 A1981
- Electron space charge channeling for focusing ion beams70US 4,434,130 AEnergy Profiles, Inc. · 1984
- Compressed beam directed particle nuclear energy generator68US 4,397,810 AEnergy Profiles, Inc. · 1983