US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 1 for "Captive spring hooks for reduced electrostatic stress" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,754, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Captive spring hooks for reduced electrostatic stress" was invented by Adam M. McLaughlin (Merrimac, Mass.), Diana C. Gronski (Salisbury, Mass.) and Craig R. Chaney (Gloucester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A faceplate and fasteners for attaching the faceplate to an ion source are disclosed. The faceplate includes a plurality of channels that open to the side of the faceplate. These channels are an elongated shape such that the channels are larger in one direction than in the orthogonal direction. The channels each terminate in an internal ...