Patents by Inventor Thomas Read

Thomas Read has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Sputtering device and method for reactive for reactive sputtering
    Patent number: 5849162
    Abstract: A method for reactive sputter coating in a chamber in which large substrates to be coated are transported past one or more coating stations. The stations are comprised of at least one sputtering target and at least one adjacent plasma generator. In the practice of this invention the sputtering and reaction zones within the chamber are indistinguishable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Deposition Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Leroy Albert Bartolomei, Thomas Read, Craig Shevlin