ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,190, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to GUDENG PRECISION INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Supporting shelf module and wafer container using same" was invented by Ming-Chien Chiu (New Taipei, Taiwan), En-Nien Shen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yung-Chin Pan (New Taipei, Taiwan), Cheng-En Chung (New Taipei, Taiwan), Po-Ting Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Chien Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Tzu-Wei Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supporting shelf module includes a plurality of plastic supporting plates parallelly arranged in a height direction, and at least one pair of metal-made connectors located at two oppo...