U.S. Copyright Office Public Records System (publicrecords.copyright.gov), 2026-10-04
Prompted by the inventor's statement (US 2007/0285325, US 2006/0071122) that "tetrahedron diagram tet0565" is "stored in the Library of Congress", and US 2006/0180473 "copyrighted in the Library of Congress". URL-parameter searches returned nothing; typed searches in the Keyword box worked.
Queries (keyword): "St. Clair tetrahedron" (4 hits); "John St. Clair hyperspace" (6 hits); "St. Clair physics" (29 hits, 1 relevant). Name-field searches not tried.
Registrations, claimant John St. Clair (all unpublished; deposits held by the Copyright Office) [web]
| Reg. no. | Title | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAu000372532 | The tetrahedron diagram. | 1996-07-11 | Visual material |
| VAu000416570 | The tetrahedron diagram : pt. 2. | 1998-03-09 | Visual material |
| VAu000616124 | Mars Experimental Planetary Institute--MEPI. | 2004-02-23 | Text |
| VAu000646796 | Hyperspace teleportation. | 2004-11-01 | Visual material |
| VAu000652149 | Geometric potential tetrahedron shape functions. | 2005-01-03 | Visual material |
| VAu000668130 | Hyperspace research institute news 4/2005 path geometry of tetranedron [sic] determines electron mass. | 2005-04-26 | Visual material |
| VAu000666486 | Hyperspace Research Institute news : planck box corner at the cabibbo angle. | 2005-04-27 | Visual material |
| VAu000666377 | Quark origami tetrahedrons. | 2005-04-29 | Visual material |
| TXu001618682 | Circle Packing of the Physics Constants. | 2008-03-17 | Text |
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Bearing
- Priority 1 (inventor's own work): the tetrahedron diagram (claim 3) dates to at least July 1996, six years before the first patent filing; the inventor kept developing it to 2008 ("Circle Packing of the Physics Constants", the latest dated trace of his work found).
- "Hyperspace Research Institute news" existed as a series (at least 4/2005 issues), i.e. a newsletter, not only a correspondence address.
- "Mars Experimental Planetary Institute--MEPI" (2004) is a new name to search.
- Copies of unpublished deposits can be requested from the Copyright Office (Records Research and Certification; fee; restrictions on copying unpublished deposits apply) [memory, medium]. That is the route to the actual diagrams.