US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Low-temperature fabric dielectric barrier discharge devices" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,401, issued on May 27, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (Princeton, N.J.).

"Low-temperature fabric dielectric barrier discharge devices" was invented by Sophia Gershman (Scotch Plains, N.J.), Yevgeny Raitses (Princeton, N.J.), Shurik Yatom (Lawrenceville, N.J.) and Phillip Efthimion (Bedminster, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fabric dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) device, a textile material comprising interconnected insulated conductive fibers can be used to generate a cold homogenous plasma by forming a discharge path from a conductive core of a first fiber, to a dielectric layer surrounding the conduct...