US Patent Issued to Atmospheric Plasma Solutions on Sept. 30 for "Waveform detection of states and faults in plasma inverters" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,842, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Atmospheric Plasma Solutions Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Waveform detection of states and faults in plasma inverters" was invented by Terrence E. Rogers (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining an operational state of an atmospheric pressure plasma. The system has a transformer for coupling power into the atmospheric pressure plasma, a current sampling circuit configured to sample at least one current pulse flowing through a primary winding of the transformer, and a programmed microprocessor configured to determine, from a waveform of the current pulse, the operational st...