US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 23 for "Rotary reactor for uniform particle coating with thin films" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,601, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Rotary reactor for uniform particle coating with thin films" was invented by Colin C. Neikirk (Mountain View, Calif.), Pravin K. Narwankar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kaushal Gangakhedkar (San Jose, Calif.), Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan (Cupertino, Calif.), Jonathan Frankel (Los Gatos, Calif.), David Masayuki Ishikawa (Mountain View, Calif.), Quoc Truong (San Ramon, Calif.) and Joseph Yudovsky (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor for coating particles includes one or more motors, a rotary vacuum chamber configured to hold particles...