One of the ten inventors on a new Searete LLC-filed patent for a new type of engine combining attributes of traditional internal combustion and power generators? None other than Microsoft's Bill Gates ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates appears as a principal applicant on a patent published last week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but the concept in question isn’t computer-based; it’s an ...

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP -- A West Bloomfield Township startup says it's working with Oakland County's economic development team on a location to research and build advanced electromagnetic engines ...

Where does the energy for your Android come from? Do you plug it into the wall? Do you use some kind of battery charger? …and does that energy come from solar power? Or a nuclear power plant? A ...

Bill Gates may love his Ford Focus, but he’s got plans to improve on age-old combustion, applying—along with Nathan Myhrvold and others from the Intellectual Ventures gang—to patent a smart engine ...

I don’t think any of us saw this one coming. Microsoft founder Bill Gates appears among a list of ten inventors filing a patent for what is being referred to as an Electromagnetic Engine and a Plasma ...

Lock up your flywheels, folks, an American inventor is coming after them. Randy Moore of RK Transportation is working on an idea that replaces an engine's flywheel with a lightweight rotor with ...

Recent patent filings have shown Bill Gates and his friends exploring subjects as diverse as <a href="http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Bill_Gates_and_friends_apply ...

Zhang Xiao, associate research fellow at the Wuhan-based PLA Naval University of Engineering, led a team to develop repeating pulsating direct current power system that could charge the railgun. The ...

In a presentation at the PLAN University Rear Admiral Ma Weiming told Chinese experts in electromagnetic research that China had made breakthroughs in key areas of electromagnetic applications, such ...