ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,369, issued on July 28, was assigned to BSH Hausgerate GmbH (Munich) and terraplasma GmbH (Garching, Germany).
"Plasma device" was invented by Maximilian Cantzler (Garching, Germany), Piotr Cyran (Debica, Poland), Florian Michl (Trostberg, Germany) and Tobias Wende (Prien, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasma device applies cold atmospheric plasma to a surface to be treated, in particular to textiles, leather and/or plastic fibers. An actuator activates a plasma source, provided that a distance between the plasma source and the surface to be treated is less than a predetermined distance. The actuator has an adjustable and ...