US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on June 23 for "Enclosure system shelf including alignment features" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,907, issued on June 23, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Enclosure system shelf including alignment features" was invented by Aaron Green (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nicholas Michael Bergantz (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John C. Menk (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shelf system includes a first distal portion configured to be fastened to a first surface of an enclosure system. The first distal portion includes a first carrier alignment feature and a first process kit ring alignment feature. The shelf system further includes a second distal portion configured to be fastened to a second surface of ...