Recent LENR related USPTO patent applications

Two recent USPTO patent applications related to LENR --

United States Patent Application 20170117066 --- April 27, 2017

METAL OXYGEN FUSION REACTOR

ABSTRACT: An exothermic fusion reactor is described that uses metal-oxygen transmutation. The process comprises a negatively-charged environment; a moderator comprising at least one noble gas; a metal, including isotopes of hydrogen; and a facilitator comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, fluorine, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, selenium, bromine, iodine, or combinations thereof.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi…0117066&RS=DN/20170117066

United States Patent Application 20170040151 --- February 9, 2017

GENERATOR OF TRANSIENT, HEAVY ELECTRONS AND APPLICATION TO TRANSMUTING RADIOACTIVE FISSION PRODUCTS

ABSTRACT: Use of adsorption, desorption, particle injection and other means to excite electrons to a region on their band structure diagram near an inflection point were the transient effective mass is elevated proportional to the inverse of curvature. These transient heavy electrons may then cause transmutations similar to transmutations catalyzed by the muons used by Alvarez at UC Berkeley during 1956 in liquid hydrogen. The heavy electrons may also control chemical reactions.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi…0040151&RS=DN/20170040151

Another LENR-related USPTO Patent Application -

United States Patent Application - 20170288233 - October 5, 2017

BATTERIES AND RELATED STRUCTURES HAVING FRACTAL OR SELF-COMPLEMENTARY STRUCTURES

ABSTRACT: An aspect of the subject technology/invention of the present disclosure includes electrode structures or elements/components that have (e.g., present) fractal and/or self-complementary shapes or structures, e.g., on a surface. Such shapes or structures can be pre-existing. The electrodes can be made of any suitable material. The electrodes may function or operate or be used as a "seed" structure to incorporate or receive a material or materials useful for lattice assisted nuclear reactions and/or cold fusion processes.

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=20170288233.PGNR.&OS=dn/20170288233&RS=DN/20170288233

Possibly relevant is a recent paper showing that ultrahigh field enhancement (1.8 X 10^6) is possible in complex structured materials due to localization.

"Optical hot-spots in boron-nitride nanotubes at mid infrared frequencies:

one-dimensional localization due to random-scattering"

https://www.osapublishing.org/…?uri=oe-25-21-25059&seq=0

(- Other papers conjecture that arbitrarily high amplification may be possible in some nano-geometries.)

The patent application author is interested in LENR, but not yet convinced that LENR is real --

"Escher Meets Mandelbrot in Battery Breakthrough "

http://www.businesswire.com/ne…brot-Battery-Breakthrough