ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,741, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Magnetic housing systems" was invented by Srinivas Gandikota (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tza-Jing Gung (San Jose, Calif.), Samuel E. Gottheim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Timothy Joseph Franklin (Campbell, Calif.), Pramit Manna (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eswaranand Venkatasubramanian (Santa Clara, Calif.), Edward Haywood (Santa Clara, Calif.), Stephen C. Garner (Newark, Calif.) and Adam Fischbach (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein relate to magnetic and electromagnetic systems and a method for controlling the density pro...