ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,612, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ADDON OPTICS LTD. (Netanya, Israel).
"Apparatus and methods for applying vacuum-plasma treatment" was invented by Arye Bar Erez (Kfar Sirkin, Israel), Haim Engler (Hashmonaim, Israel) and Jed Arkin (Savyon, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are described including a vacuum-plasma-jig (20) that receives an object (10) during application of a vacuum plasma-treatment to a first surface (12) of the object 10). A receptacle (22) and base (30) of the vacuum-plasma-jig (20) are shaped such that when the receptacle (22) receives a portion of a second surface (14) of the object...