ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,310, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SERVICE SUPPORT SPECIALTIES INC..

"Method and/or system for processing a substrate and robot apparatus therefor" was invented by Gary Hillman (Livingston, N.J.), Matthew Hoffer (Hackensack, N.J.), Jayant Chandrakant Bhosle (Harrison, N.J.), Rodrigo Nogueira (Montclair, N.J.) and Mark Hillman (Hoboken, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor processing system, a method of processing semiconductors, and a robot apparatus therefor. The robot apparatus may include: a support structure; a first arm having a first axis and being movably mounted to the support structure, the first arm havi...