T. Henry Moray - Patent Applications

When on 13th July 1939. The Moray Products Company submitted the first application for a patent for the device to radiated energy - which included Moray's valve based on germanium - it was rejected for two main reasons. The first reason was that the nozzle valve could not work because it could not heat up the cathode, which is contained in them. Indeed, it is true that they could not heat up - they were in fact one of the first examples of "cold cathode" technology.

Another objection was more fundamental in nature and therefore more problematic. "The examiner is no known natural source of wave energy electricity and requires proof of the existence of such." In other words, the machine could not function because the radiated energy is not there. Moray's fears about patent theft are intensified when he realized that the U.S. Patent Office "permeated" the employees of General Electric, General Motors and other large companies.