US Patent Issued to Applied Materials Israel on Oct. 28 for "Sample related system that includes a load lock" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,187, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Sample related system that includes a load lock" was invented by Oren Wass (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample related system that includes a vacuum chamber, a load lock chamber that includes a first port that is interfaces with a first environment having a first pressure; a second port that interfaces with a second environment that comprises the vacuum chamber; a load lock chamber pressure control unit that is configured to control a pressure within the load lock chamber; and a mass measurement unit that is configured measu...