ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,990, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to View Operating Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Glass pallet for sputtering systems" was invented by Trevor Frank (San Jose, Calif.), Robert T. Rozbicki (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jason Satern (Morgan Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pallets for transporting one or more glass substrates in a substantially vertical orientation through a sputtering system. In some cases, a pallet comprising a frame with an aperture and an adjustable grid array within the aperture. The adjustable grid array is configurable to hold a plurality of glass substrates of different shapes and/or sizes. In one case, the ...