ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,753, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Lift assemblies, and related methods and components, for substrate processing chambers" was invented by Aniketnitin Patil (San Jose, Calif.), Raja Murali Dhamodharan (Madurai, India), Martin Jeffrey Salinas (San Jose, Calif.) and Shu-Kwan Lau (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to lift assemblies, and related methods and components, for substrate processing chambers. In one implementation, a lift assembly for disposition in relation to a substrate processing chamber includes a first motor, a first driv...