US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 1 for "Centerfinding for a process kit or process kit carrier at a manufacturing system" (California, Montana, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,304, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Centerfinding for a process kit or process kit carrier at a manufacturing system" was invented by Ali Utku Pehlivan (San Jose, Calif.), Mohsin Waqar (Oakland, Calif.), Paul Zachary Wirth (Kalispell, Mont.) and Todd James Brill (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more first signals are obtained. The first signals indicate a current shape of an object placed on an end effector. The one or more first signals are compared to one or more second signals that each indicate a predefined shape for a process component on the end effector. A determi...