US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Nov. 4 for "Active cooling of quartz enveloped heaters in vacuum" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,605, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Active cooling of quartz enveloped heaters in vacuum" was invented by Dursun Moore (Austin, Texas), Julian G. Blake (Gloucester, Mass.), Hillman Bailey (Dripping Springs, Texas), James D. Strassner (Austin, Texas) and Paul Forderhase (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater assembly that that is effective at maintaining heating lamps at acceptable temperatures is disclosed. The heater assembly utilizes radiative heat transfer to transfer unwanted heat buildup in the heating lamps to a cooling base. One or more high emissivity films are ...