ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,263, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to MAGPLASMA INC (Troy, Mich.).

"Plasma generation of sorbent beds" was invented by Martin E Toomajian (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for regenerating materials using a plasma field. The device includes a flow unit configured to flow a gas or a liquid and a plasma unit coupled to the flow unit and including a plurality of electrodes and a sorbent bed having a sorbent material. The plasma unit is configured to receive the flow of the gas or liquid from the flow unit so that the gas or liquid flows through the sorbent material and a predetermined chemical species in the g...