US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Aug. 11 for "Automatic emitter point cleaners with a detection surface cleaner" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,011, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Automatic emitter point cleaners with a detection surface cleaner" was invented by Steven Bernard Heymann (Los Gatos, Calif.), Aleksey Klochkov (San Francisco), Juan Guerrero (Berkeley, Calif.) and Edward Anthony Oldynski (Martinez, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example automatic emitter point cleaning systems include: an emitter point configured to produce at least one of positive ions or negative ions within or proximate to an ionization delivery path; an emitter frame configured to hold the emitter point in or proximate to the ionization de...