US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo, Kawasaki Robotics (USA) on April 21 for "Particle removal system and method for controlling particle removal system" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,751, issued on April 21, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan) and Kawasaki Robotics (USA) INC. (Wixom, Mich.).

"Particle removal system and method for controlling particle removal system" was invented by Haruhiko Tan (Kobe, Japan), Nobuyasu Shimomura (San Jose, Calif.), Theodore Philliber (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan Le (Sacramento, Calif.), Avish Ashok Bharwani (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Simon Jeyapalan (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle removal system according to this disclosure includes a particle absorption tool configured to be electrostatically charged so as to build up a static electric charg...