US Patent Issued to KENNAMETAL on March 11 for "Evaporator boats for metallization installations" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,282, issued on March 11, was assigned to KENNAMETAL INC. (Latrobe, Pa.).

"Evaporator boats for metallization installations" was invented by Zhiquan Guo (Shanghai), Mark Han (Shanghai), Chandler Du (Shanghai), Jason Goldsmith (Greensburg, Pa.) and Rob Lattimer (Wilton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, evaporator boats are provided which, in some embodiments, exhibit resistance to corrosion and associated performance degradation imparted by exposure to molten metals, including aluminum. An evaporator boat described herein comprises a body and an evaporator surface, the body comprising a boron nitride (BN) component ...