US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Feb. 17 for "O-ring mounting template and method" (Indian, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,517, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"O-ring mounting template and method" was invented by Yao-Hung Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Fred Eric Ruhland (Pleasanton, Calif.), Chih-Yang Chang (Cupertino, Calif.), Chiache Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Saurabh Murlidhar Chaudhari (San Jose, Calif.), Sridhar Kenchanapura Nagaraju (Bangalore, India) and Kishan Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for inserting a seal member into a seal groove includes a tray. The tray includes a holding groove formed in a front surface for containing the seal member. The holding groove is siz...