Google Patents (related work: Hively scalar-longitudinal waves) - 2026-10-04

Queries: Google Hively "scalar-longitudinal" waves patent Oak Ridge; Google Patents (scalar-longitudinal) inventor:Hively. Searched for patents by Minderle: none known from the documents; no Minderle patent query run this time (next run: inventor:Minderle).

Found - WO2016196231A1, "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for generating and/or utilizing scalar-longitudinal waves", inventor Lee M. Hively, assignee Gradient Dynamics LLC; priority 2015-05-29 (US 14/726,305 and US 14/738,775 listed as worldwide applications); PCT/US2016/034485 filed 2016-05-26, published 2016-12-08; status "Ceased". [web] https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2016196231A1/en - Abstract (from page image): a linear monopole antenna inside a coaxial tubular conductor with an annular balun to cancel outer-surface return current; or a bifilar coil with opposing currents "thereby cancelling any magnetic field" - i.e. a transmitter designed to suppress the magnetic part and radiate a "scalar-longitudinal wave". - Context from Google snippets (not opened): Hively is described as a retired Oak Ridge National Laboratory staff member; with Giakos, "Toward a more complete electrodynamic theory" (2012); IARD 2020 talk "Extended Electrodynamics and SHP Theory" (with Martin Land) predicting a scalar-longitudinal wave with E parallel to propagation; ttbrown.com "Rose Files" page (11 May 2025) on the extended electrodynamics of Lee Hively and Dale ...; LENR Forum (15 Mar 2017) reports a US patent issued. US grant number not yet confirmed.

Bears on claim 3: an independent inventor with a national-laboratory background patented the same design principle Minderle states (cancel the magnetic part, radiate a longitudinal wave), in an extended-electrodynamics framework (div of current not zero) rather than a gravitational one.