The machine the team has built uses much the same technology as found in commercial microwaves - but with some important differences, according to Mr Stull.
Alfonso says when the filmmakers approached him -Godshall with the camera rolling, Jacobs in character as Turner Stull - at first he thought he was talking to a real insurance guy.
At its laboratory on the campus of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, chief executive Don Stull showed off the long, metallic microwave device that resembles an industrial production line.