ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,959, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Wafer storage and transport system and method of operation of wafer storage and transport system" was invented by Sang Hyuk Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youn Gon Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyuk Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young-Kyu Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ji Hun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sung-Hoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeong Kwan Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wafer storage and transport system includes a ceiling surface which includes a first surface and a second surface, a first traveling ...