US Patent Issued to Applied Materials Israel on Dec. 9 for "Optimization of the recipe of an examination tool" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,944, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Optimization of the recipe of an examination tool" was invented by Yigal Kotler (Nir Eliyahu, Israel), Riva Levit (Ashdod, Israel), Ido Kofler (Givatayim, Israel) and Nir Baram (Ness Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided methods and systems to automatically determine, for acquisition by an examination system, of a plurality of regions covering a plurality of dies of a specimen, along a first direction and/or along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The dimension of the region along the first direction i...