ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,027, issued on June 24, was assigned to Semes Co. Ltd. (Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea).

"Treating vessel and liquid processing apparatus" was invented by Dae Sung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sang Eun Noh (Pohang-si, South Korea), Ho Jin Jang (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Jae Hoon Park (Gwangju-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 comprising: a treating vessel including an outer cup and an inner cup placed in an inner side of the outer cup, the inner cup and the outer cup in combination defining a recollecting route for a recoll...