ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,172, issued on June 23, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Gas cooled high power connection rod" was invented by Kumaresan Nagarajan (Bengaluru, India), Yue Guo (Redwood City, Calif.), Vijay Singh (Bangalore, India) and Adarsh Balareddy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of radio frequency (RF) power connection rods are provided herein. In some embodiments, an RF power connection rod includes a first connection rod having a first connection end, a first socket end opposite the first connection end, and a first hollow portion extending from the first connection end to the first soc...