US Patent Issued to Hamamatsu Photonics, Energetiq Technology on Oct. 20 for "Inductively coupled plasma light source with switched power supply" (Massachusetts, New Mexico, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,366, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan) and Energetiq Technology Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Inductively coupled plasma light source with switched power supply" was invented by Frederick Marvin Niell III (Tampa, Fla.), Donald K. Smith (Newton, Mass.), Matthew M. Besen (Andover, Mass.), Stephen F. Horne (Medford, Mass.), David B. Reisman (Albuquerque, N.M.), Daniel J. Arcaro (Medford, Mass.) and Michael J. Roderick (Everett, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for generating light includes a chamber having a high voltage region, a low voltage region, and a plasma genera...