ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,845, issued on July 8, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Active gas generation apparatus" was invented by Kensuke Watanabe (Tokyo) and Ren Arita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One direction discharge structure in an active gas generation apparatus satisfies arrangement conditions (a) to (c). The condition (a) is a condition that a region where a corresponding metal electrode and a corresponding metal electrode are overlapped with each other in a plan view serves as a corresponding discharge space in a corresponding gap region. The condition (b) is a condition that the corresponding gap region and a plurality of gas supply h...