US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 28 for "Non-line-of-sight deposition of coating on internal components of assembled device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,449, issued on July 28, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Non-line-of-sight deposition of coating on internal components of assembled device" was invented by Alexander Berger (Palo Alto, Calif.), Cheng-Hsuan Chou (Santa Clara, Calif.) and David Knapp (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method of depositing a conformal, optically transparent coating onto a surface of one or more internal components that are enclosed within an assembled device including an optical encoder using a non-line-of-sight deposition process without altering a structure of the assembled device o...