ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,217, issued on March 24, was assigned to Entegris Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Tray assemblies for precursor delivery systems and related methods" was invented by Benjamin Harrison Olson (Florence, Texas), Jacob Thomas (Leander, Texas), Scott L. Battle (Cedar Park, Texas), Bryan C. Hendrix (Danbury, Conn.), Dalton Vance Locklear (Cedar Park, Texas), Aniket Joshi (Burnet, Texas) and Christopher Calhoun (Burnet, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tray assembly comprises a plurality of trays. Each of the plurality of trays comprises a first tray portion and a second tray portion which are couplable together by a retainer and which are...