ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,526, issued on July 15, was assigned to Applied Materials Israel Ltd. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Reconstruction of a distorted image of an array of structural elements of a specimen" was invented by Yehuda Cohen (Moshav Timorim, Israel) and Rafael Bistritzer (Petach Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method and a system configured to compensate for image distortions. An example method includes first receiving a warped image of an array of cells of a specimen. Each cell of the array comprises one or more structural elements of a substrate. A reference image of a region associated with a cell of the array of cell...