ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,946, issued on May 13, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Modular multi-directional gas mixing block" was invented by Daemian Raj Benjamin Raj (Fremont, Calif.), Kiran Garikipati (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kurt R. Langeland (San Jose, Calif.) and Syed A. Alam (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary modular gas blocks may include a body having inlet and outlet ends. The body may define a portion of a first gas path along a length of the body and may define a second gas path along a width of the body. The first gas path may include channel segments defined within the body. The inlet end may de...