Patents by Inventor John Wilson Benac

John Wilson Benac 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).

  • Methods and systems for producing fissile material from fertile feedstock
    Patent number: 9852823
    Abstract: A method for generating a fissile material is described. The method includes positioning a fertile, non-fissile material within outer space, the position within an area of proton or other high energy particle radiation, rather naturally or artificially occurring, allowing the high energy particle radiation to impinge the fertile but non-fissile material over a time, the time based on amount of high energy particle radiation at the position, such that the non-fissile material gradually transmutes into a fissile material due to the impingement, and deploying the fissile material within a spacecraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: John Wilson Benac