Re: My solid-state primary apparatus

["Finn Hammer" <f-hammer-at-post5.tele.dk> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Original Poster: "Kennan C Herrick" <kcha1-at-juno-dot-com>
> 
> I mentioned in a posting a couple of weeks ago the patent I'd been
> granted covering the circuit that I use in the primary of my solid-state
> T.c.  It's U.S. #6,069,413, "Apparatus for Generating an Alternating
> Magnetic Field".  I neglected to notice that it didn't actually issue
> until May 30th; since it now has issued, there may be some List members
> who would want to get a copy of it.  The Patent Office makes that very
> easy to do via the Web:  Just go to www.uspto.gov and proceed from there
> to the patent-ordering section.  A copy costs $3 and they accept, via a
> secure link and after registration of your name, address, etc., VISA, MC
> and other plastic.


Or klick:

http://patent.womplex.ibm-dot-com/details?&pn=US06069413__

Good old IBM already put it on the net!

Cheers, Finn Hammer
> 
> Some might also be interested in another patent of mine, # 4,862,042,
> covering how to establish a standing-wave of ionization in a
> gas-discharge tube.  I'd licensed that for commercial use, in signage,
> and am currently at the end of my 5-year lawsuit against a former
> licensee, for walking away from their contract.
> 
> I'd not recommend pursuing patents unless you are naturally contentious
> and entrepenurial (or unless you want them purely for "wallpaper"); I am
> not, so the several experiences have been pretty much of a trial (no pun,
> but apposite).
> 
> Ken Herrick