US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 28 for "Multi-piece slit valve gate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,947, issued on July 28, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-piece slit valve gate" was invented by Farzad Vakilzadeh (San Jose, Calif.), Shawn Thanhson Le (Manteca, Calif.), Ofer Amir (Half Moon Bay, Calif.) and Ramon Zaragoza (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slit valve gate includes a base portion, a seal portion, and a clamp portion. The base portion is configured to a slit valve actuator and includes a first angled alignment feature. The seal portion is coupled to the base portion. The seal portion is configured to create an airtight seal between the slit valve gate and a sealing ...