ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,335, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften e. V. (Munich).

"Thermal laser evaporation system" was invented by Wolfgang Braun (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Jochen Mannhart (Boblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is related to a thermal laser evaporation system (10), the thermal laser evaporation system (10) comprising: a reaction chamber (20) with a chamber wall (30) for enclosing a reaction volume (22); a target (12) arranged in the reaction volume (22), the target comprising one or more materials (M) to be evaporated; a laser light source (40)...