The Inventor
Distinguished Engineer & Chief Systems Architect
Aerospace - NASA - Clean Energy
Buddy R. Paul, VIVIFY's Chief Systems Architect, is a career design engineer whose work spans more than four decades and some of the most demanding programs in modern engineering, including NASA's Space Shuttle - where he engineered the fix for a cryogenic fuel leak that threatened the program - the THAAD missile-defense system, Airbus aircraft systems, and Lockheed Martin, where he was named Inventor of the Year in 2003. His experience runs across aerospace, defense, energy, electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and nuclear systems, and includes roughly 250 patents and patent-related technologies.
40+
Years of engineering & invention
~250
Patents & patent-related technologies
9
Documented issued U.S. patents
4
Landmark programs
“My passion has always been design. I like identifying the need for something and then coming up with the answer for that need.”
A Career of Invention
01
Structural Engineering - 1980s - Clary Corporation
Paul's first granted patents were mechanical: a pair of 1986 design patents for a truss connector plate, assigned to Clary Corporation. Early proof of a mind drawn to load, structure, and how parts hold together under stress - the same instincts that would define everything he built next.
Representative patents: US D286,855 - US D287,223
02
Aerospace, Defense & NASA - 1990s-2000s
On NASA's Space Shuttle program, Paul engineered the solution to a persistent cryogenic liquid-hydrogen leak - the kind of failure that grounds a fleet. The same precision-mechanism thinking runs through his work on the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system and Airbus aircraft systems, and spans electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, and nuclear applications. His granted patents from this era are missile-launch systems built at Lockheed Martin: a passive dynamically disconnecting arm, a rocket-launcher docking system, a passively-actuated snubber, and a canister closure that releases on a pressure pulse. Each was engineered to perform once, flawlessly, in the split second of a launch. In 2003, Lockheed Martin named him its Inventor of the Year.
Representative patents: US 6,679,154 - US 7,070,434 - US 7,624,669 - US 7,685,920
03
Clean Energy - 2010s-Present
Paul then turned the same discipline on the energy problem. Across more than thirty patent filings, he built out a full clean-energy architecture - hydrogen generation and electrolysis, emissions capture, turbines, and combustion - and secured three issued U.S. patents at its core. That body of work is the engineering foundation beneath VIVIFY's HOG™, CAT™, and Flying Pig™ platforms.
Representative patents: US 9,038,595 B2 - US 9,624,801 B2 - US 9,664,139 B2
The Clean-Energy Core
US 9,038,595 B2
The hydrogen-combustion engine at the heart of the HOG™ generator platform.
HOG™ - Hydrogen Energy
US 9,624,801 B2
Removes contaminants from exhaust gas and generates electrical power: the basis of CAT™.
CAT™ - Emissions Control
US 9,664,139 B2
The reaction core that drives on-demand, water-based hydrogen power generation.
Reaction Core
Appendix A
| Patent No. | Invention | Field | Assignee | Issued |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US D286,855 | Connector plate for trusses | Structural | Clary Corp. | 1986 |
| US D287,223 | Connector plate for trusses | Structural | Clary Corp. | 1986 |
| US 6,679,154 | Passive dynamically disconnecting arm | Aerospace & Defense | Lockheed Martin | 2004 |
| US 7,070,434 | Rocket-launcher docking system | Aerospace & Defense | Lockheed Martin | 2006 |
| US 7,624,669 | Apparatus comprising a passively-actuated snubber | Aerospace & Defense | Lockheed Martin | 2009 |
| US 7,685,920 | Canister closure with pressure-pulse release | Aerospace & Defense | Lockheed Martin | 2010 |
| US 9,038,595 | Carbon Oxygen Hydrogen Motor | Clean Energy | VIVIFY | 2015 |
| US 9,624,801 | Exhaust Mitigating System & Power | Clean Energy | VIVIFY | 2017 |
| US 9,664,139 | Captive Oxygen Fuel Reactor | Clean Energy | VIVIFY | 2017 |
Appendix B
The full body of clean-energy filings - hydrogen, emissions, turbines, and combustion - grouped by domain. Granted patents are marked. Serial numbers prefixed 61/ and 62/ are provisional filings.
| Invention | Application | Publication / Grant |
|---|---|---|
| Electrolysis Apparatus and Related Devices and Methods | 12/909,813 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Hydrogen Oxygen Generator | 61/256,129 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Hydrogen Oxygen Combustion Alternator | 61/258,102 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Hydro Electric River Oxygenator | 61/495,257 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Alternating Direct Current Electrolyzer | 61/548,334 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Hydrogen Generator Battery | 61/559,550 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Solar Wind Electrolyzer Electrical Turbine | 62/050,486 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Solar Wind Electrolyzer Electrical Turbine | 62/202,348 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Invention | Application | Publication / Grant |
|---|---|---|
| Carbon Oxygen Hydrogen Motor | 13/444,594 | US 9,038,595 B2Granted |
| Captive Oxygen Fuel Reactor | 15/205,721 | US 9,664,139 B2Granted |
| Captive Oxygen Fuel Reactor | 62/190,052 | US 9,664,139 B2Granted |
| Captive Oxygen Fuel Reactor | 62/022,071 | US 2017/0009702 A1 |
| Carbon Oxygen Hydrogen Motor | 61/474,147 | US 2012/0255518 A1 |
| New Internal Combustion Engine | 61/258,103 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Carbon Compound Rod | 61/320,380 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Spark Oxygen Hydrogen Injection Plug | 61/453,382 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Turbine Jet | 61/542,646 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Invention | Application | Publication / Grant |
|---|---|---|
| Mitigating System to Remove Contaminants from Exhaust Gas & Generate Power | 14/719,540 | US 9,624,801 B2Granted |
| Clean Air Turbine | 61/440,078 | US 9,624,801 B2Granted |
| Clean Air Turbine | 61/598,376 | US 9,624,801 B2Granted |
| Artificial Gravity Enhance Separator | 61/497,365 | US 9,624,801 B2Granted |
| Particle Acquisition Tower | 61/497,618 | US 9,624,801 B2Granted |
| Cryogenic Air Pump | 61/497,623 | US 9,624,801 B2Granted |
| Natural Ecological Way Mitigating System | 61/497,361 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Recycle Incinerator Generator | 61/512,815 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Invention | Application | Publication / Grant |
|---|---|---|
| Heat Exchange Turbine Generator | 61/527,970 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| AC-DC Voltage and Current Doublers | 61/321,165 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Hygienic Induction Cauldron | 61/505,928 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Invention | Application | Publication / Grant |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Electronic Water Conditioner | 61/485,685 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
| Method of Reducing Salt and Sugar Content in Food | 61/536,337 | US 2011/0100328 A1 |
Sources: United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO); Justia Patents inventor record for Buddy R. Paul; VIVIFY Technology patent list.
