US Patent Issued to PLASMA FUTURES on July 8 for "Plasma directed electron beam production of nitric oxide" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,535, issued on July 8, was assigned to PLASMA FUTURES LLC (Trevose, Pa.).

"Plasma directed electron beam production of nitric oxide" was invented by Thomas J. Sheperak (Swanton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coaxial energy delivery system comprised of a radio frequency power supply as the preferred source of power, electron accelerator system, and electrically conductive tube to be fitted to permit the flow of a gas intended to be energized as a plasma, a point of discharge of the said gas, whether in tubular or columnar form, coincident with the point of emission of the electromagnetic wave, the emission of said electromagnet...