US Patent Issued to Ciena on July 28 for "Carrier for securing fabricated wafers" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,718, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ciena Corp. (Hanover, Md.).

"Carrier for securing fabricated wafers" was invented by Simon Savard (Quebec, Canada), Raphael Beaupre-Laflamme (Quebec, Canada) and Francois Pelletier (Quebec, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for securing a wafer, the wafer having a first side comprising a plurality of fabricated structure regions and a second side that has at least one region that is exposed for fabrication when the wafer is secured, comprises: a carrier base configured to receive the wafer, the carrier base comprising one or more alignment features for aligning the wafer to the...