ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,497, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Substrate processing tube, substrate processing apparatus including the same, and substrate processing method using the apparatus" was invented by Hyunju Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byeonghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyouncheol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaehyung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byunghwan Kong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate processing apparatus may include an inner tube providing a process space extending vertically, an outer tube enclosing the inner tube, a gas supplying conduit ...