ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,215, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Method and apparatus for determining concentration of compound in ultrapure water" was invented by En-Tian Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chiao-Ling Weng (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the concentration of a compound in ultrapure water is provided. The method includes dividing the ultrapure water into a first part and a second part and decomposing the compound in the first part, so that the first part includes a characteristic substance. The method also includes measuring a first concentratio...