ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,205, issued on March 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Reaction chamber with stop-gapped vacuum seal" was invented by Byung-Jin Choi (Austin, Texas), Seth J. Bamesberger (Austin, Texas) and Alex Ruiz (Spicewood, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some devices and systems comprise one or more walls of a reaction chamber; an adjustable gap in the one or more walls, wherein the adjustable gap is formed between a first gap surface and a second gap surface facing the first gap surface, and wherein a distance between the first gap surface and the second gap surface is adjustable; a plurality of stops, wherein each stop of the plura...