ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,996, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Soitec (Bernin, France).
"Holding device for an assembly that is to be fractured" was invented by Didier Landru (Le Champ-pres-Froges, France), Oleg Kononchuk (Theys, France) and Nadia Ben Mohamed (Echirolles, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holding device for a fracturable assembly, which is intended to separate along a fracture plane defined between an upper part and a lower part of the fracturable assembly, comprises at least two protrusions configured to keep the fracturable assembly suspended in a substantially horizontal holding position, the protrusions being intended to be locat...