US Patent Issued to APPLIED MATERALS on Oct. 27 for "Electrically conductive ceramic electric field blocking plate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,471, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to APPLIED MATERALS INC..

"Electrically conductive ceramic electric field blocking plate" was invented by David Aitan Soltz (Santa Clara, Calif.), William Brian Chin (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Alkakos (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan James Strahle (San Francisco) and Christopher Laurent Beaudry (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric field blocker plate which includes an electrically conductive ceramic having a bulk resistivity of less than about 5 ohm*cm. A semiconductor processing system which includes the electric field blocker plate is also disclosed."

The patent was filed o...