2026-10-04 Google Patents

Queries: 1. https://patents.google.com/?inventor=vlaenderen : one result, DE3044939A1 (1980, roof-space extension for a motor vehicle; inventor "geb. van Vlaenderen Cecilia"). Not related. No patents found for Koen van Vlaenderen [web]. 2. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9306527B1/en (page metadata read by script; the Chrome render was blank): US 9,306,527 B1, "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for generating and/or utilizing scalar-longitudinal waves", inventor Lee M. Hively, assignee Gradient Dynamics LLC, dates 2015-05-29 (filing) and 2016-04-05 (grant). Abstract: SLW transmit/receive apparatus with a linear monopole conductor, a coaxial tubular second conductor and an annular balun "configured to cancel" the return current [web]. The page does not cite van Vlaenderen.

Not tried this run

• Espacenet and the Dutch patent register for "Vlaenderen", and for "Ethergy" as an applicant.
• Family members of US 9,306,527.

Bearing

• Absence: no patent by the author or by Ethergy B.V. was found in Google Patents (claim 5, devices). Ethergy as applicant was not searched.
• Priority 3: Hively's patent is a granted US patent on antennas for the same longitudinal "electroscalar" wave as claim 2. Its claims are the patent holder's characterization; whether the device works as described is not settled by the grant.