ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,598, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Taiwan Seimconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Wafer storage device with particle-attraction object" was invented by Yuan-Cheng Kuo (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chi-Chung Jen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Kai-Hung Hsiao (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Pei-Huang Hsu (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Chih-Hsiung Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wafer storage device is provided. The wafer storage device includes a floor, a ceiling, and one or more walls between the floor and the ceiling to define a wafer storage chamber for storage of one or more wafers. The apparatus ...