ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,007, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Shin-Etsu Polymer Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Substrate storage container" was invented by Junya Toda (Saitama, Japan) and Takashi Suda (Niigata, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a substrate storage container includes a transport component configured to be mountable to a container body by being relatively displaced with respect to the container body from the rear side to the front side. The container body has a container body-side protrusion protruding upward. The transport component has a transport component-side protrusion protruding downward. In a mounted state, the tra...