ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,349, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Third Pole Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Nitric oxide generation process controls" was invented by Benjamin J. Apollonio (Lunenburg, Mass.) and Gregory W. Hall (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for controlling the electrical generation of nitric oxide. In some aspects, a system for generating nitric oxide comprises a plasma chamber housing two or more electrodes in communication with a resonant high voltage circuit configured to send a signal to the plasma chamber for generating nitric oxide in a product gas from a flow of a reactant g...