ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,333, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PlasmaCure B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands).

"Treatment pad for a dielectric barrier discharge plasma treatment" was invented by Paulien Smits (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Sofie Baselmans (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Elisabeth Frieda De Ridder ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands), Jeroen Antoine Jozef Mulder (Weert, Netherlands) and Wouter Bastiaan Zeper (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A treatment pad for a dielectric barrier discharge plasma treatment of a tissue to be treated of an electrically conducting body, which tissue is used as a counter electrode, said treatment pad comprising: ...