US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 27 for "Pellicle assembly and method of making same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,208, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Pellicle assembly and method of making same" was invented by Hsin-Chang Lee (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Pei-Cheng Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Ta-Cheng Lien (Cyonglin Township, Taiwan), Li-Jui Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tsai-Sheng Gau (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chin-Hsiang Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a pellicle assembly includes reducing the thickness of one or more initial membrane(s) to obtain a pellicle membrane. The pellicle membrane is then affixed to a mounting frame to obtain the...