ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,290, issued on May 27, was assigned to Texas Capitol Semiconductor Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Semiconductor turbine reset" was invented by Roger L. Bottomfield (Chandler, Ariz.) and Andrew Lei (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor manufacturing system has a turbine disposed inside a semiconductor manufacturing clean room. A controller is disposed outside the semiconductor manufacturing clean room and is coupled to the turbine through a first cable. A first computer is coupled to the controller through a second cable. The first computer has a web server configured to communicate with the controller via the second c...