US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on June 23 for "Apparatuses and methods for handling optical devices" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,335, issued on June 23, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods for handling optical devices" was invented by Yaseer Arafath Ahamed (Austin, Texas), Neal Ricks (San Jose, Calif.), James D. Strassner (Austin, Texas) and Kangkang Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an apparatus for retaining a substrate includes a base, a pair of arms positioned adjacent to a bottom surface of the base, the pair of arms including a first arm and a second arm, and an actuator coupled to the base and the pair of arms. The actuator is configured to move the pair of arms towa...