US Patent Issued to YIELD ENGINEERING SYSTEMS on June 17 for "Apparatus for coating removal" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,268, issued on June 17, was assigned to YIELD ENGINEERING SYSTEMS INC. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Apparatus for coating removal" was invented by M Ziaul Karim (San Jose, Calif.) and Dragan Cekic (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for removing a coating from a substrate comprises a nozzle with an inner conduit having an orifice and an outer conduit coaxially arranged about the inner conduit and defining an annular opening between the inner and outer conduits. The nozzle is configured to direct a liquid stream through the orifice toward the coated surface and direct a gas flow through the annular opening such that th...