Patent ID: 7841989

Claim:
A non-lethal method for immobilizing a human subject by utilizing electromagnetic energy to disrupt the subject's sense of balance and perception of body position and movement, comprising the steps of: providing means for generating and transmitting a beam of radio frequency electromagnetic energy having a selected frequency and modulation correlated to a physical and a chemical structure of a human sensory cell to disrupt proper operation of either of a mechanical transduction process or a chemical process by which sensory input is converted by the sensory cell to messages that are processed by a human brain; and directing said beam of radio frequency electromagnetic energy from a remote location toward the human subject to be immobilized to impose a Lorentz force on selected sensory cells of the subject sufficient to disrupt proper operation of the cell's mechanical transduction process or chemical process and alter the sensory input converted to messages processed by the subject's brain to adversely affect the perception of body position and movement so as to produce disorientation, confusion, and incapacitation sufficient to immobilize and render the subject powerless to resist arrest or subjugation.