US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Jan. 20 for "Carrier with rotation prevention feature" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,207, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Carrier with rotation prevention feature" was invented by Damon K. Cox (Jarrell, Texas), Manjunatha Gondihosalli (Bangalore, India) and Karuppasamy Muthukamatchi (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier includes a carrier body, fingers attached to the carrier body, and a rotation prevention component attached to the carrier body. The fingers are configured to support a process kit ring. The rotation prevention component is configured to be disposed proximate a flat inner surface of the process kit ring to prevent rotation of the p...