ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,912, issued on June 10, was assigned to AIXTRON SE (Herzogenrath, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for depositing carbon-containing structures" was invented by Alexandre Jouvray (Huntingdon, Great Britain), Bryan Michael Wingfield (Huntingdon, Great Britain), Ashley Thomas Wells (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Goncalo Pedro Goncalves (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus deposits carbon-containing structures on a substrate conveyed through an interior space of a housing. The interior space has a central zone between a first peripheral zone and a second peripheral zone. The substrate enters the housing th...