ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,026, issued on June 24, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Chemical dispensing system" was invented by Ming-Chieh Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Long Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Fang-Pin Chiang (Taichung, Taiwan), Feng-An Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Jung Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chi-Tung Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chemical dispensing system is capable of simultaneously supplying a semiconductor processing chemical for production and testing through the use of independent chemical supply lines, which reduces production downtime of an associated semiconductor proces...