US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on March 17 for "Hollow cathode system for generating a plasma and method for operating such a hollow cathode system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,161, issued on March 17, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Hollow cathode system for generating a plasma and method for operating such a hollow cathode system" was invented by Henrik Flaske (Dresden, Germany), Meyer Bjorn (Dresden, Germany), Mattausch Gosta (Dresden, Germany), Stefan Weiss (Dresden, Germany), Volker Kirchhoff (Dresden, Germany), Burkhard Zimmermann (Dresden, Germany), Rainer Labitzke (Dresden, Germany) and Jorg Kubusch (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hollow cathode system generates a plasma. The system includes an anode device, a power ...