US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 8 for "Apparatuses and methods for handling optical devices of varying geometries" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,406, issued on July 8, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatuses and methods for handling optical devices of varying geometries" was invented by Yaseer Arafath Ahamed (Austin, Texas), Neal Ricks (San Jose, Calif.), James D. Strassner (Austin, Texas) and Kangkang Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to optical devices. More specifically, embodiments described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for gripping optical devices. In an embodiment, an apparatus for gripping an optical device includes a base coupled to a proximal end o...