H10P 72/3408
Docking arrangements
Official title: {Docking arrangements}
H10P72/3408 (Docking arrangements) appears on 759 US grants and 780 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10P- Granted patents
- 759
- Published applications
- 780
- Assignees
- 235
- Inventors
- 1,358
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Fully automated and computerized conveyor based manufacturing line architectures adapted to pressurized sealable transportable containers604US 5,388,945 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1995
- Apparatus for securing an automatically loaded wafer cassette on a wafer processing equipment493US 5,246,218 AIntel Corporation · 1993
- Semiconductor wafer cassette positioning and detection mechanism489US 5,970,621 APRI Automation, Inc. · 1999
- Apparatus and method for transporting wafers between wafer carrier and process tool under vacuum489US 9,543,180 B2ASM IP Holding B. V. · 2017
- Substrate storage cassette positioning device and method487US 6,432,849 B1Nikon Corporation · 2002