US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on April 15 for "Apparatus and method for applying accelerated electrons to gaseous media" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,971, issued on April 15, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Apparatus and method for applying accelerated electrons to gaseous media" was invented by Gosta Mattausch (Dresden, Germany), Andre Weidauer (Dresden, Germany), Ralf Bluthner (Dresden, Germany), Jorg Kubusch (Dresden, Germany), Frank-Holm Rogner (Dresden, Germany), Volker Kirchhoff (Dresden, Germany), Rainer Labitzke (Dresden, Germany) and Burkhard Zimmermann (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods are provided for applying accelerated electrons to a gaseous medium by means of an ele...