ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,461, issued on March 25, was assigned to TellaPure LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Methods and apparatus for decomposing constituent elements of fluids" was invented by Edgar Bryan Hill (Reston, Va.), Dawn Price (Great Falls, Va.) and Hidetaka Noda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a decomposing and collection apparatus for use with a fluid. The apparatus includes an assembly for generating ions via applying atmospheric pressure, low temperature plasma to the fluid and separating the generated ions. The assembly includes multiple plasma generator and separator units that are vertically stacked relative to ea...