ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,539, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ASM IP Holding B.V. (Almere, Netherlands).
"Substrate handling device with adjustable joints" was invented by KiHyun Kim (Chandler, Ariz.), Sam Kim (Chandler, Ariz.) and Rutvij Naik (Tempe, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable joint for insertion into a linkage of a substrate handler utilized for substrate processing. The adjustable joint allows for adjusting the pitch and roll of an attached link. Such adjustment may permit aligning a pickup surface of an end effector to a desired plane. Once adjusted, the joint may be fixed to maintain the desired orientation of the attached link....