US Patent Issued to Niterra on April 8 for "Holding device and method of manufacturing holding device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,965, issued on April 8, was assigned to Niterra Co. Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).

"Holding device and method of manufacturing holding device" was invented by Ryunosuke Sakamaki (Nagoya, Japan), Katsuya Takaoka (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroshi Watanabe (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A holding device including a ceramic member formed of a sintered ceramic material containing aluminum nitride as a main component, a heating resistor element formed of a metal and disposed in the ceramic member, an electrically conductive electricity supply connection member in contact with the heating resistor element, and an electrically conductive ele...