US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Jan. 28 for "Reconfigurable mainframe with replaceable interface plate" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,714, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Reconfigurable mainframe with replaceable interface plate" was invented by Michael R. Rice (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mainframe of a device fabrication system comprises a base and a plurality of facets on the base. Each facet of the plurality of facets comprises a frame. The mainframe further comprises a plurality of replaceable interface plates. Each replaceable interface plate of the plurality of replaceable interface plates is attached to a respective facet such that at most one replaceable interface plate is attached t...