The video above was made in November 2008 showing how my invention works. You can read the official USPTO patent application which I had submitted using the link below:
This patent application shows a method to supply electricity to an automobile traveling down the highway so that the batteries can be charged while the car is in motion. The concept is an application of resonance. As you can see in the video above it works very well indeed. When applied to an electric car such as the Tesla, it can extend the mileage that the car can travel on the highway almost indefinitely.
The circuit diagram is in the patent application. As shown in the diagram, the electrical link between the charging circuit and the automobile is capacitive. The design uses resonance condition to transfer power, see the independent claim 1 below, the key phrase is “via the capacitance between the electrodes in the roadway and the corresponding electrodes beneath the automobile”.
I know hundreds of examiners at the USPTO who are decent and honest, but a very large number are racist and dishonest. The culture at the USPTO has always been to cheat the smaller companies and pro se applicants in order to help large companies. That is why David Kappos who used to be at IBM was put in charge of the USPTO. I worked at IBM in the nineties in Vermont and at that time I don’t recall seeing even one African American. IBM has a racist culture, that is why it put it’s semiconductor facility in Vermont rather than in Arizona or Texas.
I have been a Patent Examiner at the USPTO for more than ten years and I know that the Examiner for this case Mark T. Le Art Unit 3617 did such a dishonest job that the USPTO should be ashamed! The rejection he gave was dishonest and about 30% of the Examiners at the USPTO are dishonest scumbags who write dirty rejections like this.
To begin with, this Examiner Mark T. Le Art Unit 3617 could not find a single reference to read on the claim limitation of “via the capacitance between the electrodes in the roadway and the corresponding electrodes beneath the automobile”, because all charging systems at the time used an inductive or direct coupling between the charging system and the automobile. That is the definition of novelty but this scumbag was too dishonest to do the right thing and give an allowance!
I have a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, and my Masters Thesis was on pulsed power at voltages of 50,000 V and 22,000 A which research I did on a U.S. government grant, and I know a lot about Patent Examination. I know that my disclosure was enabling.
But this Examiner could not find ANY art to give a rejection on the merits, so he did not even GIVE a rejection using prior art. Instead he just lied. He rejected the application stating as below:
The reason he was able to get away with it was because I was a pro se applicant. If I had a patent attorney, he/she would have kicked the hell out of this Examiner’s ass. But patent attorneys typically cost about $30,000 per application and I could not spend that kind of money at the time. The U.S. government employees are supposed to be honest, but when you have scum like this, they can get away with rejecting applications from pro se applicants. Nowadays the USPTO may be making efforts not to cheat pro se applicants, but that does not help me.
I wanted to apply for U.S. goverment funding to research pulsed/sinusoidal power enabled highways to power Electric cars on the highway. See the video above for yourself to understand that this is not only possible but realistic. Because of this scumbag “Examiner” I was not able to apply for government funding to do this research. This dishonesty on the part of “Examiner” Mark T. Le not only cost me a lot of money, but it also set us Americans back by more than a decade in being the first to create powered highways so that electric cars (like the Tesla) can drive almost indefinitely without ever stopping to recharge.
I sent a letter to Andrei Iancu, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, delivered on 7/17/20 requesting that this application be reopened and issued and to compensate me for monetary loss, but I received no reply. Meanwhile I am asking Elon Musk to help an inventor in need, provide me with an attorney to file suit against the United States Patent and Trademark Office for discrimination and fraud.