ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,167, issued on June 23, was assigned to EN2CORE TECHNOLOGY INC. (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Plasma generating apparatus and method for operating same" was invented by Sae Hoon Uhm (Hwaseong, South Korea), Yun Seong Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Yeong Hoon Sohn (Daejeon, South Korea) and Se Hong Park (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plasma generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a pair of electrodes arranged in a dielectric discharge tube; an initial discharge induction coil module; and a main discharge induction coil module. The initial discharge induction coil module and t...