US Patent Issued to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS on Aug. 12 for "Method for decontaminating a preform with reactive species obtained by mixing a precursor agent and a plasma" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,642, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SIDEL PARTICIPATIONS (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

"Method for decontaminating a preform with reactive species obtained by mixing a precursor agent and a plasma" was invented by Sandy Letellier (Octeville-sur-Mer, France), Gregory Toutain (Octeville-sur-Mer, France) and Foune Seck (Octeville-sur-Mer, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for decontaminating a preform made of thermoplastic material by exposing at least part of the preform to reactive species obtained by mixing a precursor agent with a plasma, the plasma being generated by injection of a carrier g...