US Patent Issued to INFICON on Sept. 2 for "Device and method for plasma generation in a wide pressure range and system and method for optical gas analysis/detection by means of such a device" (Swiss, Liechtensteiner Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,836, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to INFICON AG (Balzers, Liechtenstein).

"Device and method for plasma generation in a wide pressure range and system and method for optical gas analysis/detection by means of such a device" was invented by Astrid Waldner (Bad Ragaz, Switzerland), Bernhard Andreaus (Rapperswil, Switzerland), Urs Walchli (Chur, Switzerland) and Stefan Kaiser (Ruggell, Liechtenstein).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device for plasma generation in a wide pressure range. The device comprises a first plasma source (1) in a first discharge chamber (2) in order to generate a first plasma i...