US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for securing semiconductor device carrying boat in multi-boat tray" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,022, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for securing semiconductor device carrying boat in multi-boat tray" was invented by Chun-Yu Lin (Taichung, Taiwan), Chih-Hung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Chen Chen (Hemei, Taiwan), Cheng-Lung Wu (Zhunan, Taiwan) and Jiun-Rong Pai (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tray of an automated handling system for transporting semiconductor devices includes: a receiving region that is configured to receive a boat, the boat carrying one or more semiconductor devices thereon; and a clamping mechanism that s...