ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,172, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Processing equipment and its supporting structure" was invented by You-Syun Lyu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Jyun Shen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yung-Chi Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing equipment is provided, in which a carrier structure with at least one guide pin is arranged in a ring center area of a ring body of a frame, and a wire-supply device disposed on the ring body can supply wires to the center structure, so the wires can be woven around the guide pin and formed on the carrier structure so that the ...