US Patent Issued to ASM IP Holding on March 24 for "Method and apparatus for transmittance measurements of large articles" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,857, issued on March 24, was assigned to ASM IP Holding B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for transmittance measurements of large articles" was invented by Shiva K.T. Rajavelu Muralidhar (Tempe, Ariz.), Youness Alvandi-Tabrizi (Tempe, Ariz.), John DiSanto (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Sam Kim (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for measuring light intensity are disclosed. The methods and apparatus can be used to verify an article, such as a reaction chamber. Exemplary apparatus include a first arm, a light source coupled to the first arm, a second arm, and a sensor coupled to the second ar...