ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,074, issued on June 16, was assigned to TMEIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Active gas generation apparatus" was invented by Ren Arita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode unit in an active gas generation apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a ground conductor provided to a lower side of a ground side electrode constituting part. A chassis bottom part of a chassis includes a chassis opening part, and the chassis opening part includes a lower side tapered region having a larger opening area with decreasing distance to a lower side and an upper side region. A plurality of gas ejection ports provided in the ground cond...