Patents by Inventor Brandon Block

Brandon Block has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250354490
    Abstract: Techniques and systems extract water from lunar regolith using microwave radiation and may also produce fuel from the extracted water. The system can distill the extracted water to remove impurities before electrolyzing the purified water into oxygen and hydrogen gases, which may then be cooled to form liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. A portion of the system may reside on a lunar landing module. Another portion of the system may be affixed to a robotic arm that is extendable from the lunar landing module. This portion of the system includes a water extraction unit, comprising a cone used as a cold trap. The cone may include cooling channels to keep the temperature of the smooth inner surface of the cone cold enough to trap particles of frost that attach to the inner surface. The frost is then scraped from the inner surface and collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2025
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Inventors: Emmanuel John Grillos, II, Brandon Block
  • Patent number: 12392242
    Abstract: Techniques and systems extract water from lunar regolith using microwave radiation and may also produce fuel from the extracted water. The system can distill the extracted water to remove impurities before electrolyzing the purified water into oxygen and hydrogen gases, which may then be cooled to form liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. A portion of the system may reside on a lunar landing module. Another portion of the system may be affixed to a robotic arm that is extendable from the lunar landing module. This portion of the system includes a water extraction unit, comprising a cone used as a cold trap. The cone may include cooling channels to keep the temperature of the smooth inner surface of the cone cold enough to trap particles of frost that attach to the inner surface. The frost is then scraped from the inner surface and collected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: Blue Origin Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Emmanuel John Grillos, II, Brandon Block
  • Publication number: 20250247441
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments provide a framework for provisioning a hosted website instance within a private site hosting subnetwork for hosting a website through a virtual hosted browser application. The hosted website instance is accessible to a virtual machine instance, which can retrieve the web assets associated with the hosted website from the hosted website instance in response to requests to access the hosted website. The virtual machine instance encodes the web assets associated with the hosted website to generate a data representation of the website. The data representation of the website corresponds to a graphical facsimile of the website. The data representation of the website is transmitted to the requesting users to fulfill the requests. When the data representation of the website is received by these users, the data representation of the website is decoded to present a graphical facsimile of the website.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Applicant: MIRRORTAB CORP.
    Inventors: Brian Silverstein, Christopher Jelly, Brandon Block, Jack Tannenbaum
  • Publication number: 20240035379
    Abstract: Techniques and systems extract water from lunar regolith using microwave radiation and may also produce fuel from the extracted water. The system can distill the extracted water to remove impurities before electrolyzing the purified water into oxygen and hydrogen gases, which may then be cooled to form liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. A portion of the system may reside on a lunar landing module. Another portion of the system may be affixed to a robotic arm that is extendable from the lunar landing module. This portion of the system includes a water extraction unit, comprising a cone used as a cold trap. The cone may include cooling channels to keep the temperature of the smooth inner surface of the cone cold enough to trap particles of frost that attach to the inner surface. The frost is then scraped from the inner surface and collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Emmanuel John Grillos, II, Brandon Block