US Patent Issued to Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum fur Material- und Kustenforschung on July 15 for "Device and method for the deposition of a material layer on a surface area of a workpiece" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,219, issued on July 15, was assigned to Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum fur Material- und Kustenforschung GmbH (Geesthacht, Germany).

"Device and method for the deposition of a material layer on a surface area of a workpiece" was invented by Arne Roos (Hamburg, Germany), Luciano Bergmann (Geesthacht, Germany), Jorge Fernandez Dos Santos (Tespe, Germany) and Henry Loitz (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for depositing a material layer on a surface of a workpiece has a deposition facility with a hollow shoulder that is rotatable about an axis relative to a base. The shoulder has an indentation that is limit...