US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on June 17 for "Substrate transfer systems and methods of use thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,376, issued on June 17, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Substrate transfer systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Alex Berger (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jeffrey Hudgens (San Francisco) and Eric Englhardt (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods relating to a transfer chamber for an electronic device processing system. The transfer chamber can include a first magnetic levitation track having a face-up orientation and a second magnetic levitation track spaced from the first magnetic levitation track and having a face-down orientation. The system can...