US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Oct. 27 for "Substrate carrier detection using contactless communication" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,882, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Substrate carrier detection using contactless communication" was invented by Nithiyanantham Balasubramaniam (Leander, Texas) and Nobuyuki Kashiwagi (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory, to perform operations including receiving a signal from a reader of a contactless communication system integrated within a load port of an electronic device processing system, determining, based on the signal, whether a substrate carrier of the electronic device proces...