{"id":31053,"date":"2016-10-14T22:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T05:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-latest-patent-for-the-impossible-em-drive-has-just-been-made-public-and-its-wild"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:18","slug":"the-latest-patent-for-the-impossible-em-drive-has-just-been-made-public-and-its-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-latest-patent-for-the-impossible-em-drive-has-just-been-made-public-and-its-wild","title":{"rendered":"The latest patent for the \u2018impossible\u2019 EM Drive has just been made public \u2014 and it\u2019s wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-latest-patent-for-the-impossible-em-drive-has-just-been-made-public-and-its-wild.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a big year for the \u2018impossible\u2019 EM Drive \u2014 a new kind of rocket engine that appears to generate thrust without any kind of exhaust or propellant. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-has-trialled-an-engine-that-would-take-us-to-Mars-in-10-weeks\">Back in May<\/a>, NASA researchers reported a successful 10-week trial of their EM Drive prototype, and inventor Guido Fetta <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-impossible-em-drive-is-about-to-be-tested-in-space\">just got approval<\/a> to test his own version in space.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the UK Intellectual Property Office has released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipo.gov.uk\/p-find-publication-getPDF.pdf?PatentNo=GB2537119&DocType=A&JournalNumber=6647\">the latest patent application<\/a> from British EM Drive inventor Roger Shawyer, and he says millions of pounds rest on the success of design within.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patent process is a very significant process, it\u2019s not like an academic peer review where everyone hides behind an anonymous review, it\u2019s all out in the open,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/emdrive-roger-shawyer-patenting-new-design-next-gen-superconducting-thruster-1585982\">Shawyer told Mary-Ann Russon at the International Business Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-patent-for-that-impossible-em-drive-has-just-been-made-public-and-it-s-wild\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-patent-for-that-impossible-e...-it-s-wild<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a big year for the \u2018impossible\u2019 EM Drive \u2014 a new kind of rocket engine that appears to generate thrust without any kind of exhaust or propellant. Back in May, NASA researchers reported a successful 10-week trial of their EM Drive prototype, and inventor Guido Fetta just got approval to test his own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66000,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31053\/revisions\/66000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}