Boris Volfson must be a pretty famous guy in his home-town of Huntington, Indiana. Why? Because he’s the inventor of an anti-gravity spaceship, that’s why. And how do we know this? Because Mr. Volfson received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for such a device earlier this month. As an article in the current edition of Nature magazine notes, this is yet another example of how broken the U.S. patent system is, since it not only allows people such as Mr. Volfson to patent things that defy the laws of physics, but allows them to do so without having to produce a working model. For the record, Mr. Volfson says the spaceship is powered by “a cooled hollow superconductive shield [which] is energized by an electromagnetic field, resulting in the quantized vortices of lattice ions projecting a gravitomagnetic field that forms a spacetime curvature anomaly.” But wouldn’t dilithium crystals and a warp drive be cheaper?