ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,094, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Modular fluid delivery assembly" was invented by Ricardo Martinez (Manteca, Calif.), Jagan Rangarajan (San Jose, Calif.), Sami Mustafa (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tarun Kumar Abichandani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lukas Sykora (Tigard, Ore.), Shih-Yu Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hung X. Hoang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid assembly includes a base and at least one first device. The base includes a single-piece body including a base outlet, a base inlet, and a first interface including a first interface inlet and a first interface...