Patents by Inventor Laura Oliphant

Laura Oliphant has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Substrate confinement apparatus and method
    Publication number: 20050181711
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for constraining a substrate in-plane is provided. A substrate retainer having a retainer body and contact surface configured to engage a portion of a back side of a substrate, and a flexure coupled to the retainer body and configured to restrict one or more degrees of movement of a substrate with respect to the substrate retainer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Alexander Starikov, Laura Oliphant