US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Aug. 25 for "Automated substrate placement to chamber center" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,094, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated substrate placement to chamber center" was invented by Wolfgang Aderhold (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include a method of centering a substrate in a chamber. In an embodiment, the method comprises inserting the substrate into the chamber with a robot arm, obtaining a delta time value for a second pyrometer relative to a first pyrometer, where the delta time value is a duration of time between when the first pyrometer is covered by the substrate and when the second pyrometer is covered by...