ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,947, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to LPE S.p.A. (Baranzate, Italy).

"Treating arrangement with transfer chamber and epitaxial reactor" was invented by Silvio Preti (Baranzate, Italy) and Francesco Corea (Baranzate, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The treating arrangement (900) for an epitaxial reactor (1000) comprises: a reaction chamber (100) for treating substrates, a transfer chamber (200) adjacent to the reaction chamber (100), for transferring substrates placed over substrates support devices, a loading/unloading group (300) at least in part adjacent to the transfer chamber (200), arranged to contain a substrates support...