ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,428, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Wafer container, top cover thereof, and method for managing wafer containers" was invented by Chi Ming Pan (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Pohsien Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Zheng-Xun Yang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a plurality of wafer containers in a facility includes: using an overhead hoist transport system to transport the wafer containers, the overhead hoist transport system includes a vehicle, the vehicle includes a grip device, each of the wafer containers includes a top flange, and ...