US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on March 31 for "Apparatus, system and method for energy spread ion beam" (Massachusetts, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,359, issued on March 31, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus, system and method for energy spread ion beam" was invented by Paul J. Murphy (Reading, Mass.), Frank Sinclair (Hartland, Maine), Jun Lu (Beverly, Mass.), Daniel Tieger (Manchester, Mass.) and Anthony Renau (West Newbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ion implanter may include an ion source, arranged to generate a continuous ion beam, a DC acceleration system, to accelerate the continuous ion beam, as well as an AC linear accelerator to receive the continuous ion beam and to output a bunched ion beam. The ion implanter may als...