US Patent Issued to ASM IP Holding on April 15 for "Alignment fixture for a reactor system" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,129, issued on April 15, was assigned to ASM IP Holding B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).

"Alignment fixture for a reactor system" was invented by Surojit Ganguli (Tempe, Ariz.), Todd Robert Dunn (Cave Creek, Ariz.) and Ankit Kimtee (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment fixture for a reactor system may comprise a fixture body comprising an inner perimeter at least partially defining a shape which comprises an inner space of the fixture body, wherein the inner space is configured to receive a susceptor of a reactor system; and/or a measuring protrusion coupled to the fixture body at a first position and protruding from the fix...