US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACUTURING on March 31 for "Payload transportation system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,651, issued on March 31, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACUTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Payload transportation system" was invented by Chieh Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Guancyun Li (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Ching-Jung Chang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Chi-Feng Tung (Maioli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method for cross-fab wafer transportation are provided. A method includes providing a first FAB building and a second FAB building connected via a bridging area, the second FAB building comprising fabrication tools configured to perform fabrication processes different than fabrication processes pe...