ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,994, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hochschule fur angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Hildesheim/Holzminden/Gottingen (Hildesheim, Germany).

"Measurement apparatus for alternating currents and voltages of physical plasmas, particularly of cold plasmas at atmospheric pressure, and plasma generator comprising such a measurement apparatus" was invented by Mario Hesse (Gottingen, Germany), Jannik Schulz (Gottingen, Germany), Roland Damm (Ebergotzen, Germany) and Wolfgang Viol (Adelebsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement apparatus for alternating currents and voltages of a physical plasma ignited by applying an alte...