US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 2 for "Ion extraction optics having non uniform grid assembly" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,833, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc..

"Ion extraction optics having non uniform grid assembly" was invented by Costel Biloiu (Rockport, Mass.), Alan V. Hayes (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher Campbell (Newburyport, Mass.) and Dmitry Lubomirsky (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a beam profile function, derived from a beam density of an ion beam along a substrate plane, and generating a mirror function, based upon the beam profile function, wherein a sum of the mirror function and beam profile function generates a flat beam distribution. The method may include recei...