US Patent Issued to PARTIX on June 24 for "Plasma coating method for coating particulate matter" (Belgian, Luxembourger, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,345, issued on June 24, was assigned to PARTIX (Leuven, Belgium).

"Plasma coating method for coating particulate matter" was invented by Gill Scheltjens (Boom, Belgium), Regis Heyberger (Thionville, France), Marc Jacobs (Koerich, Luxembourg), Russel Pescod (Laarne, Belgium) and Filip Van Der Gucht (Boechout, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasma coating method for coating particulate matter, including the steps of: a) providing a low-temperature atmospheric plasma jet from a plasma gas outside of the reaction chamber; b) inserting a precursor into the plasma jet, thereby obtaining a plasma coating flow comprising an excited...