US Patent Issued to Atmospheric Plasma Solutions on June 17 for "Plasma source and method for removing materials from substrates utilizing pressure waves" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,301, issued on June 17, was assigned to Atmospheric Plasma Solutions Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Plasma source and method for removing materials from substrates utilizing pressure waves" was invented by Peter Joseph Yancey (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method is provided for removing a material from a substrate, a plasma is generated at atmospheric pressure. The plasma includes an energetic species reactive with one or more components of the material. The plasma is flowed from an outlet as a plasma plume that includes periodic regions of high plasma density and low plasma density. The material is exposed to the plasma plume...