ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,555, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Trustees of Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.).
"Low-temperature dielectric barrier discharge devices" was invented by Shurik Yatom (Lawrenceville, N.J.), Yevgeny Raitses (Princeton, N.J.), Sophia Gershman (Scotch Plains, N.J.) and Phillip Efthimion (Bedminster, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) devices and methods of use for sterilizing surfaces. The DBD devices generally include one or more first electrodes, one or more second electrodes or chemical reagent layers, and at least one dielectric layer between the one or more first electr...