US Patent Issued to Applied Materials Israel on Aug. 26 for "Optical inspection using controlled illumination and collection polarization" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,133, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Optical inspection using controlled illumination and collection polarization" was invented by Elad Eizner (Ness Ziona, Israel) and Amir Shoham (Ness Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical inspection system, including (a) an illumination optics that is configured to generate an illumination light beam and to illuminate a sample with the illumination light beam; (b) at least one collection optics configured to collect light from the sample as a result of an impingement of the illumination light beam on the sample; (c) at least one...