ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,967, issued on June 24, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Methods, mediums, and systems for identifying tunable domains for ion beam shape matching" was invented by Richard Allen Sprenkle (South Hamilton, Mass.), Richard White (Newmarket, N.H.), Eric Donald Wilson (Rockport, Mass.), Shane Conley (Gloucester, Mass.), Ana Samolov (Somerville, Mass.) and Nilay A. Pradhan (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adjusting the shape of an ion beam are described. Characteristics of a desired beam shape may be defined. The ion beam generator may include beam shaping elements associated ...