ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,158, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DAPHNE TECHNOLOGY SA (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and method for electron irradiation scrubbing" was invented by William Jamieson Ramsay (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland), Juan Mario Michan (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland) and Henrik Westermark (Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a dielectric barrier electrical discharge apparatus, system and method. The apparatus comprises at least two electrodes arranged in use to provide at least one anode and at least one cathode an electric field thereby being establishable therebetween, the at least two electr...