US Patent Issued to RTX on Jan. 20 for "Deposition apparatus and methods for sequential coating" (Pennsylvania, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,142, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Deposition apparatus and methods for sequential coating" was invented by James W. Neal (Ephrata, Pa.), David A. Litton (West Hartford, Conn.), Brian T. Hazel (Avon, Conn.), Michael J. Maloney (Marlborough, Conn.) and Eric M. Jorzik (Annville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deposition apparatus comprises: an infeed chamber; a preheat chamber; a deposition chamber; and optionally at least one of a cooldown chamber and an outlet chamber. At least a first of the preheat chamber and the cooldown chamber contains a buffer system for buffering workpieces respectiv...