ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,316, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method" was invented by Sangjine Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jihwan Park (Suwon-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 apparatus including a processing container including a processing space, a substrate support extending in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the second direction, and configured to support a substrate in the processing container, a fluid supply device configured to supply ...