US Patent Issued to Eli Lilly and Co. on March 17 for "Systems and methods for igniting plasma within tubes" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,586, issued on March 17, was assigned to Eli Lilly and Co. (Indianapolis).

"Systems and methods for igniting plasma within tubes" was invented by Andrew Pennington Myers (West Lafayette, Ind.), Lee Edward Organski (West Lafayette, Ind.), Alexey Shashurin (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Xingxing Wang (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for generating plasma within narrow diameter tubes, e.g., tubes with an inner diameter of less than 1 millimeter. The system may comprise the tube, a nozzle connected to at least one end of the tube configured to supply a gas into the interior of the tube at atmospheric...