US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Dec. 9 for "Input/output (IO) handling during update process for manufacturing system controller" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,273, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Input/output (IO) handling during update process for manufacturing system controller" was invented by Eugene Lobovski (San Jose, Calif.), Dmitry Panasyuk (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jithendran Venkatesan (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sandeep Roy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for input/output (IO) handling during an update process for a manufacturing system controller are provided. First notifications are transmitted by an IO driver of a system controller between components of a process chamber and a substrate process IO ha...