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Google Patents - 2026-10-03

Site: https://patents.google.com/ (queried through its JSON endpoint https://patents.google.com/xhr/query?url=...; patent pages read as HTML). Result: partial (confirms the known record; one new citing patent; no new Moray patent). Recheck: no (Google Patents does not hold unpublished pre-2001 US applications; Moray's rejected applications will never appear here).

Queries tried

  • inventor=Moray, priority before 1975-01-01 (37 results, all other Morays: Virgil W., Forest J., Jere C., etc.)
  • assignee=Cosray; q="Moray" + assignee="Research Institute"; inventor="John E Moray"; inventor="Richard R Moray" (0 relevant)
  • q="radiant energy" + q=Moray, priority before 1980 (8 results; only US 2,460,707 relevant)
  • Patent page US2460707A (family, citations, cited-by)
  • Direct lookup CA550611 (to test a number that appears in the digests)

Findings

  1. US 2,460,707 (Electrotherapeutic apparatus, Thomas H. Moray, application US485112A filed 30 Apr 1943, granted 1 Feb 1949) is the only patent Google Patents attributes to T. H. Moray. It has no foreign family members (no priority claims, no applications claiming its priority). [web https://patents.google.com/patent/US2460707A/en]
  2. Cited by 9 later patents, including RCA US 4,292,960 (1981, radioactive and microwave energy applied to the body) and Robert M. Lyden US 11,588,421 B1 (2023) and US 12,136,824 B2 (2024), "Receiver device of energy from the earth and its atmosphere", which lists US 2,460,707 among vacuum-tube references and cites Lloyd R. Crump US 2,813,242 (1957) "Powering electrical devices with energy abstracted from the atmosphere". [web https://patents.google.com/patent/US11588421B1/en]. Later work by others; it shows Moray cited as prior art, not tested.
  3. CA 550,611 is unrelated: it is a 1957 Uniroyal/Goodrich patent ("Method of applying a plastisol layer to cured cellular rubber"). [web https://patents.google.com/patent/CA550611A/en]. The "patent CA 550,611" string in the digest of zz-Claude-Analysis/13 is a mislabel of US application Serial No. 550,611 (1931); do not chase it.
  4. No patent assigned to Cosray Research Institute, Research Institute Inc., Moray Products Co., or to John E. or Richard R. Moray.

Bearing on claims

Claim 6 (Patent Office): the public patent record holds only the 1949 therapy patent. The radiant-energy applications (incl. Serial 550,611) survive only in the NARA RG 241 file wrappers, if at all (research recommendation R-01).