ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,821, issued on July 1, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Processing equipment" was invented by Satoshi Yamanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing equipment includes a processing apparatus including a chuck table, a suction apparatus supplying a negative pressure to the chuck table, a first base that supports the processing apparatus, and a second base that supports the suction apparatus. The second base has, at a bottom part thereof, multiple leg parts that are disposed in such a manner as to penetrate through through-holes provided in the first base, without getting contact with the first base, and are each capable...