ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,637, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Pure Platech Co. Ltd. (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
"Water treatment device using underwater plasma discharge" was invented by Kyoung Doo Kang (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kyoung Jun Ko (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Min Jae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seon Mi Lee (Pocheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A water treatment device includes: an electrode structure installed in a storage space in which water is stored or in a flow space in which water flows so as to cause an underwater plasma discharge; and a gas supply module for supplying a gas to the storage space or the flow space ...