US Patent Issued to Applied Materials Israel on May 20 for "Enhanced deposition rate by thermal isolation cover for GIS manipulator" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,207, issued on May 20, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Enhanced deposition rate by thermal isolation cover for GIS manipulator" was invented by Sean Kashy (Gedera, Israel) and Yehuda Zur (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for depositing material over a sample in a localized region of the sample, the system including: a vacuum chamber; a thermal mass disposed outside the vacuum chamber; a sample support configured to hold a sample within the vacuum chamber during a sample evaluation process; a charged particle beam column configured to direct a charged particle beam into the vac...