ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,902, issued on July 8, was assigned to ASM IP Holding B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for delivery of vanadium compounds" was invented by Charles Dezelah (Helsinki), Qi Xie (Wilsele, Belgium), Petri Raisanen (Gilbert, Ariz.), Dieter Pierreux (Dilbeek, Belgium), Bert Jongbloed (Oud-Heverlee, Belgium), Werner Knaepen (Leuven, Belgium) and Eric James Shero (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may comprise disposing vanadium tetrachloride in a delivery vessel; delivering the vanadium tetrachloride to a reaction chamber in fluid communication with the delivery vessel; mitigating the delivery of decomposition pr...