ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,384, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Shin-Etsu Polymer Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Substrate storage container" was invented by Osamu Ogawa (Saitama, Japan) and Seiya Nakarai (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A substrate storage container includes a container body configured to store a substrate, a lid that closes the opening of the container body, a retainer that is attached to the lid, and a substrate support portion formed in the retainer. The substrate support portion has an arc shape in a cross-sectional view from the top-to-bottom direction perpendicular to the closing direction of the lid. The substrate support portion ...