US Patent Issued to First Solar on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for vaporization and vapor distribution" (Ohio, Michigan, California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,911, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to First Solar Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for vaporization and vapor distribution" was invented by Zhigang Ban (Perrysburg, Ohio), John Barden (Perrysburg, Ohio), Jerry Drennan (Sylvania, Ohio), Litian Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Rick Powell (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Nirav Vora (Lehi, Utah) and Yaojun Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distributor assemblies for vapor transport deposition systems, and methods of conducting vapor transport deposition, are described."

The patent was filed on Oct. 24, 2018, under Application No. 16/758,258.

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