US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 22 for "Fasteners for coupling components of showerhead assemblies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,291, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fasteners for coupling components of showerhead assemblies" was invented by Carlaton Wong (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Reyn Tetsuro Wakabayashi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of showerhead assemblies and fasteners for use in coupling components of showerhead assemblies are provided herein. More particularly, the fasteners described herein can advantageously be used to connect a gas distribution plate to a backing plate of the showerhead assembly. The fasteners described herein can further advantageously be used to robustl...