US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on April 15 for "Coded substrate material identifier communication tool" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,101, issued on April 15, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Coded substrate material identifier communication tool" was invented by Wolfgang Aderhold (Santa Clara, Calif.), Boris Axelrod (San Jose, Calif.), Maxim Shaposhnikov (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Dayal Ramachandran (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Bindusagar Marath Sankarathodi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include methods of processing substrates in a tool. In an embodiment, the method of processing the substrate in the tool, comprises receiving an augmented recipe with a machine learning (ML) and/or an artificial int...