US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 27 for "Acoustic-controlled material deposition" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,521, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Acoustic-controlled material deposition" was invented by Joseph Albert F. S. Pingenot (Gibsonia, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses techniques, apparatuses, and systems for acoustic-controlled material deposition. Material deposition is often used in manufacturing to create layered structures. Current material deposition methods, however, are incapable of adequately controlling the deposition of material to a desired resolution, which in some applications (e.g., semiconductors) may be required to improve performance or provide pathway...