US Patent Issued to METAWATER on July 21 for "Ozone-generating apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,990, issued on July 21, was assigned to METAWATER Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Ozone-generating apparatus" was invented by Ryutaro Takahashi (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Daisuke Inoue (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ozone-generating apparatus includes: a plurality of discharge tubes each including: a first electrode having a tubular shape extending along a first axis; a second electrode extending along the first axis; and a dielectric extending along the first axis and disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the plurality of discharge tubes including a first discharge tube and a second discharge tube adja...