RU2222878C1 — Shchelkunov Microwave Plasmoid Generator (NPP Istok)

Registered in the CPW patent ledger (CPW_PATENTS.md, 43-right census) and resolving open question OQ-5. RU2222878C1, assigned to Shchelkunov at NPP «Istok», describes a microwave plasmoid generator that includes a distinct PLASMOID EJECTION stage — making it the closest hardware analog anywhere in the patent record to the microwave-created plasma objects of the Avramenko concept family (though Avramenko's weapon creates plasma in-situ ahead of the target and ejects nothing). Claims text verified live during CPW-06. STATUS: LAPSED — like every other plasmoid/ball-lightning-titled right in the Russian census (nine total, including RU2573820C2 Russian MoD sealed-energy device and RU132664U1), it confers no active enablement. CORRECTION carried by this entry: earlier corpus leads citing RU2227286 as the 'ball-lightning patent' were misattributed — RU2227286 is an MEPhI iodine-detection patent; the correct Shchelkunov number is RU2222878C1. No weapon claim in any claim element; the device is a laboratory plasma-object generator.