ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,990, issued on March 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Discharge device" was invented by Makoto Imai (Shiga, Japan), Hidetoshi Hata (Osaka, Japan), Yohei Ishigami (Osaka, Japan), Takafumi Omori (Shiga, Japan), Yuki Takigawa (Shiga, Japan), Tetsunori Aono (Tokyo), Yutaka Uratani (Shiga, Japan) and Mikio Ito (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discharge device includes voltage application circuit that applies output voltage to load including discharge electrode holding liquid to generate discharge in discharge electrode. Voltage application circuit includes a function of ...