US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 7 for "Electrostatic end effector for manufacturing system robot" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,636, issued on July 7, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Electrostatic end effector for manufacturing system robot" was invented by Rajkumar Thanu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pei-Chen Wu (Cupertino, Calif.), William Laceky (Georgetown, Texas), Matvey Farber (Redwood City, Calif.) and Jeffrey C. Hudgens (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of an electrostatic end effector, and methods of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, an electrostatic end effector comprises a ceramic base, a first electrode layer coupled to the ceramic base, and a second electrode layer coupl...