ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,583, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Surfx Technologies LLC (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for impedance matching in plasma creation at atmospheric pressure" was invented by Thomas Scott Williams (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a standalone matching network configured to be coupled to a power controller and an atmospheric pressure plasma creation device by way of coaxial cables of arbitrary length. The matching network comprises circuitry to receive electrical power by way of the first coaxial cable, receive a control signal including instructions to tune the impedance by adjust...