ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,138, issued on April 14, was assigned to Semes Co. Ltd. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Maintenance assembly for an inkjet head, maintenance method for an inkjet head and apparatus for processing a substrate including a maintenance assembly for an inkjet head" was invented by Won-Yong Jin (Jeonju-si, South Korea), Hosang Lee (Asan-si, South Korea), Jiyun Ahn (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Jae-Duck Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Suk-Won Jang (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A maintenance assembly for an inkjet head may include a housing having an upper face facing a nozzle face on which nozzles for discharging a...