US Patent Issued to MOLECULAR PLASMA GROUP on June 10 for "Shield for atmospheric pressure plasma jet coating deposition on a substrate" (Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,918, issued on June 10, was assigned to MOLECULAR PLASMA GROUP SA (Foetz, Luxembourg).

"Shield for atmospheric pressure plasma jet coating deposition on a substrate" was invented by Gill Scheltjens (Boom, Belgium), Joanna Borek-Donten (Arlon, Belgium), Bertrand Schons (Florange, France) and Regis Heyberger (Thionville, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasma coating an object has an object profile, and includes the steps of: providing a replaceable shield including a jet inlet, a nozzle outlet and a sidewall extending from the jet inlet to the nozzle outlet; detachably attaching the replaceable shield to a jet outlet of a plas...