ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,414, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HelioSourceTech LLC (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Remote reactant reservoirs for codeposition with variable melt area evaporant flux control" was invented by Billy Jack Stanbery (Austin, Texas) and Walter Seaman (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes operating a reactant precursor vapor flux control and delivery system located in a vacuum deposition chamber comprising conveying feedstock from a feedstock buffer reservoir to an evaporation source reservoir coupled to the feedstock buffer reservoir, the evaporation source reservoir having a cavity shape that defines a evaporant pool su...