Patents by Inventor James L. Ford

James L. Ford 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).

  • Device for cryogenically fabricating source material for plasma X-ray lasers
    Patent number: 4508055
    Abstract: A device for fabricating a target of a lasing material and a pump material or lasing at X-ray wavelengths wherein one of the materials occurs naturally as a gas. A substrate of the other material is cooled below the freezing point of the one material occuring naturally as a gas. Then a gaseous atmosphere of the latter material is supplied to the cooled substrate so that a frozen layer of the latter material condenses onto the substrate to form the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1985
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Raymond C. Elton, Robert H. Dixon, James L. Ford