GEET and Paul Pantone Timeline
Inventor accounts, documented events, legal outcomes, and test results are labeled separately.
How to read this timeline: Dates tied to patents, court records, and papers are stronger than dates repeated only in retrospective community histories. A legal event does not validate or invalidate the engineering.
1950
Paul Pantone is born
Biographical sources place his birth in Detroit, Michigan.
1970s–1980s
Early development claims
Pantone later said he began fuel-pretreater experiments during the energy crises and produced early working configurations. Exact milestones rely largely on inventor and supporter accounts.
1995
Fuel-pretreater patent filed
The application that became US5794601A was filed. Its text is the primary record of the proposed apparatus and mechanism.
1998
US5794601A issued
The US Patent and Trademark Office issued the patent. Issuance documents an invention claim; it does not certify performance.
late 1990s–2000s
Plans circulate and variants emerge
Pantone-related plans spread online. French experimenters developed water-doping variants commonly called Gillier-Pantone systems.
2001
French engineering thesis
Christophe Martz studied a modified system. The thesis reported mixed observations, said few Pantone claims were verified, and recommended further work.
2004
Utah guilty plea
Pantone pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree securities fraud. This legal outcome is separate from the device’s technical merits.
2005–2009
Competency proceedings and hospitalization
A court found Pantone incompetent to proceed. He was confined for competency restoration and later released. Supporters disputed his treatment; those claims remain attributed allegations.
2010
Federal civil case dismissed
Pantone v. Hansen, which named judicial, prosecution, defense, and hospital defendants, was dismissed on immunity and pleading grounds.
2015
Pantone dies
Paul Pantone died in December 2015. His patent, interviews, plans, and builder archive continued to circulate.
2018
Brazilian generator experiment published
Carozzi and coauthors reported unfavorable results with common gasoline and water and a favorable aviation-gasoline condition. They described the evidence as inconclusive and called for more testing.
Today
An archive and an open test question
GEET remains a community experiment with a documented patent and mixed evidence. Extraordinary efficiency, plasma, and mostly-water claims still lack independent confirmation.