US Patent Issued to Elevated Materials US on Oct. 28 for "Evaporator for effective surface area evaporation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,750, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Elevated Materials US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Evaporator for effective surface area evaporation" was invented by Sambhu Kundu (Fremont, Calif.), PrasannaKalleshwara Buddappa Ramachandrappa (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vicente M. Lim (Newark, Calif.), Subramanya P. Herle (Mountain View, Calif.) and Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for thermal evaporation are provided. The thermal evaporator includes a flat crucible design, which provides an increased surface area for evaporation of the material to be deposited relative to convent...