US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 14 for "Reactor for coating particles in stationary chamber with rotating paddles and gas injection" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,163, issued on July 14, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reactor for coating particles in stationary chamber with rotating paddles and gas injection" was invented by Jonathan Frankel (Los Gatos, Calif.), Colin C. Neikirk (Mountain View, Calif.), Pravin K. Narwankar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Quoc Truong (San Ramon, Calif.), Govindraj Desai (Bangalore, India), Sekar Krishnasamy (Bangalore, India) and Shrikant Swaminathan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor for coating particles includes a stationary vacuum chamber that has a lower portion that forms a half-cylinder and an upper portion...