US Patent Issued to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne on March 18 for "Nanoplasma switch device for ultrafast switching" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,037, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Nanoplasma switch device for ultrafast switching" was invented by Elison De Nazareth Matioli (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Mohammad Samizadeh Nikooytabalvandani (Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a nanoplasma switch device, comprising: -multiple electrically isolated electrodes; -a gap separating the two electrodes; wherein the gap has a width which is dimensioned to effect the generation of a plasma by electric-field electron emission."

The patent was filed on March 12, 2021, under A...