US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on May 27 for "Plating systems having reduced air entrainment" (Montana, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,702, issued on May 27, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Plating systems having reduced air entrainment" was invented by Cameron Law (Kalispell, Mont.), Daniel Durado (Kalispell, Mont.), Thomas Oberlitner (Kalispell, Mont.) and Richard W. Plavidal (Ridgway, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electroplating processing systems according to the present technology may include a recirculating tank containing a first volume of processing fluid. The recirculating tank may be fluidly coupled with a delivery pump. The systems may include a vessel configured to receive the processing fluid from the pump. The vess...