US Patent Issued to MetOx International on Sept. 1 for "Multi-stack susceptor reactor for high-throughput superconductor manufacturing" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,392, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MetOx International Inc. (Houston).

"Multi-stack susceptor reactor for high-throughput superconductor manufacturing" was invented by Shahab Khandan (Houston), Nagaraja Shashidhar (Houston) and Mikhail Novozhilov (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vapor deposition reactor apparatus, systems and methods for deposition of thin films, particularly high-temperature superconducting (HTS) coated conductors, utilize multi-sided susceptors and susceptor pairs for increased production throughput. The reactors may also be configured in multi-stack arrangements of the susceptors within a single reac...