US Patent Issued to APPLIED MATERIALS ITALIA on March 18 for "Support device for supporting a substrate, method of processing a substrate and semiconductor substrate" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,088, issued on March 18, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS ITALIA S.R.L. (San Biagio di Callalta, Italy).

"Support device for supporting a substrate, method of processing a substrate and semiconductor substrate" was invented by Daniele Andreola (Povegliano, Italy), Giorgio Cellere (Torri di Quartesolo, Italy), Alvise Fecchio (San Biagio di Callalta, Italy), Valentina Furin (Piazzola Sul Brenta, Italy), Enrico Pasqualetto (Castelfranco Veneto, Italy), Alessio Zanchettin (Revine Lago, Italy) and Marco Galiazzo (Quinto di Treviso, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support device includes a substrate receiving region. The support d...