ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,626, issued on April 14, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc..

"Systems and methods for ozone degradation for a plasma treatment system" was invented by Rory Wolf (Hartford, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes material surface treatment systems and methods that employ a byproduct treatment system to receive a byproduct generated by application of a plasma, the byproduct treatment system configured to degrade the byproduct and exhaust the degraded byproduct from the material surface treatment. The disclosed byproduct treatment system modifies the byproduct prior to evacuation from the material tre...