US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on July 15 for "Material management method and system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,465, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Material management method and system" was invented by Rong-Syuan Fan (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chi-Feng Tung (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Jung Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsiang-Yin Shen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: storing a carrier containing material in a storage; recording environmental data of the storage to a database while the material is in the storage; generating a forecast for the material in the carrier based on the environmental data; receiving a request for the material from a semiconductor ...