US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 14 for "Substrate carrier" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,672, issued on July 14, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Substrate carrier" was invented by Bhaskar Prasad (Jamshedpur, India), Thomas Brezoczky (Los Gatos, Calif.), Kirankumar Neelasandra Savandaiah (Bangalore, India), Aditya Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Vijet Patil (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to substrate transfer systems, including the use of a carrier configured to transfer objects through a substrate processing system. The carrier generally includes a base, a first magnetic levitation element and a second magnetic levitation element c...