US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on May 13 for "Wafer frame sorter and stocker" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,532, issued on May 13, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Wafer frame sorter and stocker" was invented by Tsung-Sheng Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan), I-Lun Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Hung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jiun-Rong Pai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Hsin Chien (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yang-Ann Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wafer sorting and stoking system provides automated storage and retrieval of wafer frames carrying semiconductor wafers. A wafer frame cassette is received at a transfer port from a transfer system. A robot arm retrieves the wafer frames from the cassette...