US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on May 13 for "System and method to evaporate an OLED layer stack in a vertical orientation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,527, issued on May 13, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method to evaporate an OLED layer stack in a vertical orientation" was invented by Sebastian Gunther Zang (Grossostheim, Germany) and Jurgen Henrich (Limeshain, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum orientation module for a substrate processing system is described. The module includes at least a first vacuum orientation chamber, comprising: a vacuum chamber; a transportation track within the vacuum chamber, the transportation track having a support structure and a driving structure and defining a transportation direction; and an...