ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,123, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BEIJING NAURA MICROELECTRONICS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for material dispatching, and vertical furnace apparatus" was invented by Lin Cui (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dispatching a material includes obtaining a material listing and a process sequence, inquiring about each material in the material listing to determine a current status of each material, according to the current status of each material and the process sequence, simulating and calculating a plurality of moving paths for materials in the material listing and recording process time e...