US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on May 27 for "Workpiece handling architecture for high workpiece throughput" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,748, issued on May 27, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Workpiece handling architecture for high workpiece throughput" was invented by Jason M. Schaller (Austin, Texas), Michael Carrell (Leander, Texas), William T. Weaver (Austin, Texas) and Charles T. Carlson (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for transferring semiconductor workpieces from a load lock to an orientation station and onto a platen is disclosed. The system comprises two load locks, a multi-workpiece orientation station, two multi-pick robots that transfer a plurality of workpieces between a respective load lock and t...