US Patent Issued to ENTEGRIS on July 8 for "Wafer container and size adaption system therefor" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,896, issued on July 8, was assigned to ENTEGRIS INC. (Billerica, Mass.).

"Wafer container and size adaption system therefor" was invented by Mohamad Zakaria Abd Mutholib (Kulim, Malaysia), Gian Ping Chua (Kulim, Malaysia) and Sin Ghun Lim (Butterworth, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wafer container includes a pod, a door, a wafer cassette with a top wall, a baseplate, and a biasing member. The pod includes side wall(s), a closed end, and an open end. When closed by the door, the baseplate is located between the door and the wafer cassette and the biasing member is compressed between the wafer cassette and the closed end of ...