US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Dec. 2 for "Substrate processing system carrier" (American, Canadian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,120, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Substrate processing system carrier" was invented by Aaron Green (Sunnyvale, Canada), Nicholas Michael Bergantz (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Damon K. Cox (Jarrell, Texas) and Andreas Schmid (Meyriez, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier includes a rigid body forming a plurality of openings and a plurality of fasteners configured to removably attach to the rigid body via the plurality of openings. A first set of fingers is configured to be removably attached to the rigid body via the plurality of fasteners and the plurality of openings. The fi...