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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2004
Applicant:
Peter Van Der Meulen, Newburyport, MA (US);
Inventor:
Peter van der Meulen, Newburyport, MA (US);
Assignee:
BlueShift Technologies, Inc., Andover, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 21/673 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for a vacuum-based semiconductor handling system. The system may be a linear system with a four-link robotic SCARA arm for moving materials in the system. The system may include one or more vertically stacked load locks or vertically stacked process modules.