The USPTO granted this patent.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&p=1&S1=20060071122.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060071122&RS=DN/20060071122

[progmom]

1. oh my.

I assume he didn't have to demonstrate it for them.

[jmowreader]

2. The examiner needs to ask for one more document

Namely, the recipe for the acid this guy was on when he wrote that.

[Benfea]

3. Uhm... don't you have to have a working model to get a patent?

Why, oh why were our tax dollars wasted on this lunatic? Tear up his patent and send him back to the Star Trek convention!

[anarch]

4. what makes you think he didn't? It probably works much better than my

time machine that I made out of an old toaster, the alternator from a 1974 Buick Skylark, and 200,000 Q-tips. It works, but I can only go forward in time, at the rate of 1 second per second.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Well, duh

A '74 Skylark had only a 55-amp alternator. :eyes:

[Benfea]

11. I don't think a patent has been granted at all.

I think it's just an application from a kook.

[Ptah]

6. Your link only shows the application.

Where's the patent?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. You have to pay for it ("Add to shopping cart") -nt

[Ptah]

10. I tried that and only could get the application.

Could you give me the patent number?

:shrug:

[qnr]

7. Wonder if it will end up here:

http://www.totallyabsurd.com/

[Deja Q]

9. So when someone else does the work, John St Puke cashes in?

What no better way to stifle invention than to have dorks like him running about unmedicated. x(

[crispini]

12. No, they didn't, that's just an application.

Try doing a search on "Quincy" ... that's the Inventor's name ... here:

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html

No patent for any teleportation device has been granted.