ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,503, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Tokyo Electron Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Part replacement system and part replacement device" was invented by Atsushi Sawachi (Miyagi, Japan), Ichiro Sone (Miyagi, Japan), Suguru Sato (Miyagi, Japan) and Takuya Nishijima (Miyagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A part replacement system includes a part storage device configured to store an unused consumable part, and a replacement device that is connected to a processing device and the part storage device, the replacement device being configured to replace a used consumable part installed in the processing device with the unused consumable part stored ...