ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,391, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ushio Denki K.K. (Tokyo).
"Light source apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Teramoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source apparatus, in which an energy beam transforms a liquid raw material into plasma to extract radiation, includes a rotation body, a raw material supply section, and an electric field applying section. The rotation body is disposed at a position onto which the energy beam is incident. The raw material supply section supplies the liquid raw material to the rotation body. The electric field applying section is set to a potential different from a potential of the l...