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. 12,315,747, 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 on to a platen is disclosed. The system comprises two load locks, two robots, and one orientation station. Each robot is associated with a respective load lock and follows a fixed sequence. The robot re...