US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 14 for "Feature creation in substrate supports" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,085, issued on July 14, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Feature creation in substrate supports" was invented by Arvinder Manmohansingh Chadha (San Jose, Calif.), Gagandeep Singh Joshi (Fresno, Calif.), Joseph Frederick Sommers (Roseville, Calif.), Joseph Frederick Behnke (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher Laurent Beaudry (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei-Sheng Lei (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a ceramic plate of a substrate support system. The method further includes determining a feature pattern for a surface of the ceramic plate. The method further includes perform...