US Patent Issued to Applied Materials Israel on June 2 for "Manipulator for rotary-linear motion in vacuum" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,225, issued on June 2, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Manipulator for rotary-linear motion in vacuum" was invented by Asaf Gutman (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manipulator that includes a vacuum chamber interface that is configured to be detachably coupled to a vacuum chamber, a shaft, a proximal enclosure, a proximal housing, a distal housing, a rotational movement unit configured to translate a rotational movement of the distal housing to a rotational movement of the shaft, a linear movement unit configured to translate a linear movement of the distal housing to a linear movemen...