US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Feb. 11 for "Paddle configuration for a particle coating reactor" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,678, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Paddle configuration for a particle coating reactor" was invented by Govindraj Desai (Karnataka, India), Sekar Krishnasamy (Bangalore, India), Sumedh Acharya (Bangalore, India), Dakshalkumar Patel (Gujarat, India), Jonathan Frankel (Los Gatos, Calif.), Quoc Truong (San Ramon, Calif.), Mario Cambron (San Jose, Calif.) and Ravindra Patil (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor for coating particles includes a stationary vacuum chamber to hold a bed of particles to be coated, a chemical delivery system, and a paddle assembly. The...