ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,522, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Versum Materials US LLC (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Material supply system" was invented by Thomas William Piltz (New Tripoli, Pa.) and John Paul Prego (Pennsburg, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides gas supply and dispensing system and method of operating the same, comprising first on-stream vessel and first standby vessel, wherein the system is used to dispense gas at a preset gas flow rate; sensors in communication with a controller to sense a predefined endpoint of the first on-stream vessel thereby causing the controller to initiate auto-crossing from the first on-stream vess...