US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on March 18 for "Robot apparatus, systems, and methods for transporting substrates in electronic device manufacturing" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,089, issued on March 18, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Robot apparatus, systems, and methods for transporting substrates in electronic device manufacturing" was invented by Jeffrey C. Hudgens (San Francisco) and Karuppasamy Muthukamatchi (Madurai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic device manufacturing systems, robot apparatus and associated methods are described. The robot apparatus includes an arm having an inboard end and an outboard end, the inboard end is configured to rotate about a shoulder axis; a first forearm is configured for independent rotation relative to the arm about an e...