US Patent Issued to APPLIED MATERIALS on July 28 for "Batch processing apparatus, systems, and related methods and structures for epitaxial deposition operations" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,707, issued on July 28, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Batch processing apparatus, systems, and related methods and structures for epitaxial deposition operations" was invented by Manjunath Subbanna (Bangalore, India), Ala Moradian (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Errol Antonio C. Sanchez (Tracy, Calif.), Zuoming Zhu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peydaye Saheli Ghazal (Saratoga, Calif.), Martin Jeffrey Salinas (San Jose, Calif.), Aniketnitin Patil (San Jose, Calif.), Raja Murali Dhamodharan (Madurai, India) and Shu-Kwan Lau (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to batch processing...