US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Nov. 11 for "Displacement control device for seismic events" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,578, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Displacement control device for seismic events" was invented by Chuan-Chieh Chiang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chun-Jung Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support platform is configured to support at least a portion of the weight of an associated semiconductor manufacturing tool, such as a furnace, when the associated semiconductor manufacturing tool is disposed on the support platform. The support platform comprises a base, a support plate disposed on the base and configured to move respective to the base, a brak...