US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on April 21 for "Methods for upper platen manufacturing" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,766, issued on April 21, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods for upper platen manufacturing" was invented by Ximeng Xue (Santa Clara, Calif.), David J. Lischka (Austin, Texas), Jay Gurusamy (Santa Clara, Calif.), Steven M. Zuniga (Soquel, Calif.), Jeonghoon Oh (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jagan Rangarajan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein include an apparatus and method for additive manufacturing a component for a semiconductor processing apparatus. The apparatus for additive manufacturing includes a printhead configured to selectively deposit ...