US Patent Issued to DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY on April 15 for "System and method for remote sensing a plasma" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,095, issued on April 15, was assigned to DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY (Ireland).

"System and method for remote sensing a plasma" was invented by Patrick J. McNally (Dublin) and Sean Kelly (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method and system to remotely monitor a plasma (3) comprising a magnetic field antenna (2) positioned in the near electromagnetic field of a coupled plasma source wherein the magnetic field antenna is a magnetic loop antenna placed in the near electromagnetic field and measure near field signals emitted from the plasma source. A radio system (1) is utilised to analyse the low power signal leve...