ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,745, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Eagle Harbor Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Apparatus and method of generating a waveform" was invented by Timothy M. Ziemba (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Kenneth E. Miller (Seattle), John G. Carscadden (Seattle), James R. Prager (Seattle) and Ilia Slobodov (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a high voltage waveform generator comprising: a generator inductor; a high voltage nanosecond pulser having one or more solid state switches electrically and/or inductively coupled with the generator inductor, the high voltage nanosecond pulser configured to produce a pulse burst ...