US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on April 22 for "Scheduling substrate routing and processing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,315, issued on April 22, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scheduling substrate routing and processing" was invented by Chongyang Wang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining queue times associated with operations of a sequence recipe. The operations are associated with production of substrates in a substrate processing system. The method further includes generating a schedule based on the queue times. The method further includes transmitting the schedule to a controller of the substrate processing system. The controller is to control the substrate processing system t...