ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,935, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Substrate processing method using low temperature developer and semiconductor device manufacturing apparatus using the same" was invented by Sangjine Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihoon Jeong (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Younghoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kuntack Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate processing method includes supplying a first developer at a first temperature onto a substrate in a development device, thereby performing a development process, supplying a process fluid at a second tempe...