ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,126, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Wafer holder assembly" was invented by Cheng-You Tai (Taipei, Taiwan), Ling-Sung Wang (Tainan, Taiwan), Chen-Chieh Chiang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Jung-Chi Jeng (Tainan, Taiwan), Yi Ping Chao (Tainan, Taiwan) and Zhi-Hong Chung (Pingtung County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container for receiving a semiconductor device is provided. In one embodiment, the wafer holder assembly includes a first wafer holder with a plurality of first fingers arranged in a first common horizontal plane and a second wafer holder with a plura...