US Patent Issued on April 15 for "Electron resonance source apparatus and method of use thereof" (Massachusetts, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,357, issued on April 15.

"Electron resonance source apparatus and method of use thereof" was invented by W. Davis Lee (Rockport, Maine), Mark Amato (S. Hamilton, Mass.), Benjamin N. Wright (Haverhill, Mass.) and Gabriel Maxwell (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention comprises a method and apparatus for generating a plasma, comprising: (1) receiving a microwave from a co-axial cable, with a first impedance, into an electron cyclotron resonance source, the electron cyclotron resonance source comprising: a housing containing a first transform material and a transmission section; (2) passing the microwave through the...