ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,928, issued on April 14, was assigned to SCREEN HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Japan).
"Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method" was invented by Masafumi Suzuki (Kyoto, Japan) and Shigehiro Goto (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate processing apparatus includes a holder that holds a substrate, a nozzle having a bottom portion in which a discharge port extending in one direction is formed, a mover that, above the substrate held by the holder, relatively moves at least one of the nozzle and the substrate with respect to another one in an intersecting direction that intersects with the one direction with ...