US Patent Issued to Schmid Silicon Technology on Dec. 23 for "Method and apparatus for producing silicon-containing materials" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,364, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Schmid Silicon Technology GmbH (Freudenstadt, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for producing silicon-containing materials" was invented by Peter Feinaugle (Freudenstadt, Germany), Jochem Hahn (Rottenburg am Neckar, Germany), Georgij Petrik (Boblingen, Germany) and Christian Schmid (Freudenstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of producing silicon-containing materials includes converting a gas to a superheated state in which it is at least partly in plasma form, and contacting the superheated gas with a silicon-containing first starting material to form a mixture including the g...