ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,931, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NITERRA Co. LTD. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Substrate holder" was invented by Kazuya Takahashi (Nagoya, Japan) and Naotoshi Morita (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a substrate holder including: a ceramic base member; a plurality of electrodes and at least one conductive member embedded in the ceramic base member; a plurality of connecting parts electrically connecting the plurality of electrodes and the at least one conductive member such that each of the at least one conductive member is connected to at least one of the plurality of electrodes; a plurality of terminals pr...