US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 15 for "Methods of making nanopowders, nanoceramic materials and nanoceramic components" (Saudi Arabia, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,363, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods of making nanopowders, nanoceramic materials and nanoceramic components" was invented by Guodong Zhan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Xiaowei Wu (San Jose, Calif.), Xiao Ming He (Fremont, Calif.) and Jennifer Y. Sun (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of forming a chamber component for a process chamber. The methods may include filling a mold with nanoparticles or plasma spraying nanoparticles, where at least a portion of the nanoparticles include a core particle and a thin film coating over the core parti...