ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,621, issued on April 14, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods of manufacturing plasma generating cells for a plasma source" was invented by David John Jorgensen (Mountain View, Calif.), Jian Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Vladimir Nagorny (Tracy, Calif.) and Hugo Rivera (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) structure includes forming a patterned electrode layer around an outer perimeter of a substrate composed of a dielectric material. The patterned electrode layer includes multiple electrodes around the outer perimeter of the subs...