ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,183, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Eagle Harbor Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Efficient energy recovery in a nanosecond pulser circuit" was invented by James Prager (Seattle), Timothy Ziemba (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Kenneth Miller (Seattle), Ilia Slobodov (Seattle) and Morgan Quinley (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a nanosecond pulser circuit. In some embodiments, a nanosecond pulser circuit may include: a high voltage power supply; a nanosecond pulser electrically coupled with the high voltage power supply and switches voltage from the high voltage power supply at high frequencies; a transf...