ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,986, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Denver).
"Synchronization of plasma processing components" was invented by Gideon Van Zyl (Fort Collins, Colo.), Kevin Fairbairn (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Denis Shaw (Fort Collins, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Plasma processing systems and methods are disclosed. The system may include at least one modulating supply that modulates plasma properties where the modulation of the plasma properties has a repetition period, T. A synchronization module configured to send a synchronization signal with a synchronization-signal-repetition-period that is an integer mu...