ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,111, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Power generator with partial sinusoidal waveform, plasma processing apparatus including the same and method of manufacturing semiconductor device using the same" was invented by Hyuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power generator with partial sinusoidal waveform includes a resonance module circuit and a pulse module circuit. The resonance module circuit includes a plurality of resonance control switches, and generates a first output voltage by selectively turning on and off the plurality of resonance control swi...