ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,797, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"High speed substrate sorter" was invented by Asaf Schlezinger (Modi'in, Israel) and Markus J. Stopper (Voerstetten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a substrate sorter, an inspection and sorting system having the substrate sorter, and a method for the inspection and sorting system. The substrate sorter includes an annular gripper comprising a rotator and a plurality of vacuum applicators concyclically disposed around an axis, a carrier operable to move a substrate towards the rotator and into a loading region below the ro...