US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on June 10 for "Transport carrier docking device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,747, issued on June 10, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Transport carrier docking device" was invented by Chih-Hung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng-Lung Wu (Zhunan Township, Taiwan), Yang-Ann Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsuan Lee (Tainan, Taiwan) and Jiun-Rong Pai (Jhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport carrier docking device may be capable of forming an air-tight seal around a transport carrier while a front portion of the transport carrier is inserted into a chamber of the transport carrier docking device. Semiconductor wafers in the transport carrier may be accessed by a...