ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,007, issued on April 8, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Electronic device manufacturing system" was invented by Michael Robert Rice (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Jeffrey C. Hudgens (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device manufacturing system includes a mainframe including a transfer chamber and facets defining side walls of the transfer chamber. The facets include first facet, second facet, third facet, and fourth facet that form the transfer chamber. The first facet has a first number of substrate access ports. The second facet has a second number of substrate access ports. A firs...