US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on April 29 for "Time constraint management at a manufacturing system" (Singaporean, American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,624, issued on April 29, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Time constraint management at a manufacturing system" was invented by David E Norman (Bountiful, Utah), Fumio Kawada (Kakamigahara, Japan) and Yuh Lin Ng (Kallang / Whampoa, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for time constraint management at a manufacturing system is provided. A first request to initiate a set of operations to be run at the manufacturing system is received. The set of operations include one or more operations that each have one or more time constraints. A first set of candidate substrates to be processed during the ...