US Patent Issued to Washington University on April 14 for "Systems and methods for nonequilibrium plasmas" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,388, issued on April 14, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for nonequilibrium plasmas" was invented by Elijah Thimsen (St. Louis), Colin Page (St. Louis) and Xinhua Liang (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for nonequilibrium plasmas. In particular, described herein are methods to achieve sustained operation of plasma reactors contained in electrically insulating tubes, high power radiofrequency plasma devices using capacitively coupled electrodes, and methods to produce a carbonaceous compound and hydrogen using a nonequilibrium plasma device."

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