US Patent Issued to WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING on Aug. 26 for "Nickel-carbon and nickel-cobalt-carbon brazes and brazing processes for joining ceramics and metals and semiconductor processing and industrial equipment using same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,379, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to WATLOW ELECTRIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY (St. Louis).

"Nickel-carbon and nickel-cobalt-carbon brazes and brazing processes for joining ceramics and metals and semiconductor processing and industrial equipment using same" was invented by Alfred Grant Elliot (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Brent Elliot (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joining method includes placing a brazing element between an interface area of a first ceramic piece and an interface area of a second ceramic piece to create a joining pre-assembly and placing the components of said joining pre-assembly into a process chamb...