ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,713, issued on March 3, was assigned to Gigaphoton Inc. (Tochigi, Japan).
"Discharge electrode, method for manufacturing anode, and method for manufacturing electronic devices" was invented by Tsukasa Hori (Oyama, Japan), Yasuaki Kiyota (Oyama, Japan) and Hisakazu Katsuumi (Oyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discharge electrodes include a cathode and an anode. The anode is disposed to face the cathode in a discharge direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the cathode, and includes an electrode base 1, and a coating layer that covers a portion of a surface of the electrode base. First corners in a cross section...