ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,072, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Atomic layer deposition coatings for high temperature ceramic components" was invented by Xiaowei Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Jennifer Y. Sun (Mountain View, Calif.) and Michael R. Rice (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods of forming coated articles. In one embodiment, a method comprises depositing one or more rare earth metal-containing ceramic compounds on an article by atomic layer deposition, for example, to coat surfaces of high aspect ratio internal channels."

The paten...