ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,537, issued on April 7, was assigned to Epirus Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for decomposition of molecules" was invented by Harry Bourne Marr Jr. (Manhattan Beach, Calif.), Morgan Arline Bedingfield (Potomac, Md.), Allison Ivey Goehringer (Wellesley, Mass.), William Griffin Dower (Torrance, Calif.), Jar Jueh Lee (Irvine, Calif.), Lavanya Govind Rau (Irvine, Calif.), Grant Lovely Verstandig (McLean, Va.) and Skyler Evan Granatir (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for disassociating molecules of a gas based on RF power. Characteristics of the RF power can be tuned to increase disassociation...