ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,829, issued on March 24, was assigned to TheraDep Technologies Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Plasma treatment devices and methods of use thereof" was invented by Michael Fourkas (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Denis O'Sullivan (Dungarvan, Ireland), Liam O'Neill (Midleton, Ireland) and Joseph M. Tartaglia (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medical devices for generating an aerosol and plasma, e.g., for therapeutic treatment are described. The medical device may include a nebulizer, the nebulizer including an outer compartment, an inner compartment, and a needle radially inward of the inner and outer compartments. The medical devic...