ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,790, issued on March 18, was assigned to CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Hefei, China).

"Polishing head management system and method" was invented by Fan-Wei Liao (Hefei, China) and Chin-Chung Ku (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a polishing head management system and method. The polishing head management system includes: a storage device, a pick-and-place device and a data acquisition device, where the storage device is used to store polishing heads; the pick-and-place device is used to pick a polishing head or place a polishing head into the storage device; the data a...