ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,024, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TDK ELECTRONICS AG (Munich).

"Device for generating a dielectric barrier discharge and method for treating an object to be activated" was invented by Dariusz Korzec (Falkenstein, Germany), Stefan Nettesheim (Regensburg, Germany) and Florian Freund (Bad Abbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device for generating a dielectric barrier discharge for treatment of an object to be activated with non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma, comprising a dielectric working chamber which has a wall of a dielectric material and which encloses a working space, wherein ...