ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,368, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Junction temperature estimation device and plasma generating system including the same" was invented by Donghoon Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Kwangyoung Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jung-Soon Bok (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jiho Uh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunjoon Ohn (Suwon-si, South Korea) and WonHee Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a plasma generating system including: a resonant inverter including a switching circuit and configured to generate a device output curr...