US Patent Issued to Entegris on Oct. 27 for "Substrate container, and door locking mechanism thereof" (Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,886, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Entegris Inc. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Substrate container, and door locking mechanism thereof" was invented by Mark V. Smith (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Shawn D. Eggum (Lonsdale, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate container includes a shell and a door for an opening of the shell. The shell includes one or more first latch sockets and one or more second latch sockets. The door includes a first locking mechanism that includes a first latch with first latch tip insertable into the one or more first latch sockets and a second latch with a second latch tip extendable into the second lat...