US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Sept. 8 for "System and method for automated wafer carrier handling" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,440, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"System and method for automated wafer carrier handling" was invented by Yung-Ho Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chung-Hsung Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and an operating method for automated wafer carrier handling are provided. The system includes a storage rack including a standby position and a storage position separated from each other, a first and second moving mechanism, and a controller operatively coupled to the first and second moving mechanism to control operations of the first and second m...