ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,940, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Reticle masking device, substrate processing apparatus including the same, and substrate processing method using the same" was invented by Sanghwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dohyung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinhong Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sungbin Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a reticle masking device, a substrate processing apparatus, and a substrate processing method. The reticle masking device comprises a first masking device that provides a mask hole, a second masking device th...