ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,720, issued on July 1, was assigned to Semes Co. Ltd. (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

"Apparatus for treating substrate" was invented by Jin Woo Jung (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Jin Mo Jae (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Sang Min Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Young Hun Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Yong Hyun Choi (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Yong Joon Im (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Seung Hoon Oh (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventive concept provides a substrate treating apparatus. The substrate treating apparatus includes a housing for providing a treating space for treating a substrate within; a support unit f...