US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on July 29 for "Guardbands in substrate processing systems" (California, Ohio, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,952, issued on July 29, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Guardbands in substrate processing systems" was invented by Jimmy Iskandar (Fremont, Calif.), Fei Li (Cincinnati) and James Robert Moyne (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying trace data including a plurality of data points, the trace data being associated with production, via a substrate processing system, of substrates that have property values that meet threshold values. The method further includes determining, based on the trace data, a dynamic acceptable area outside of guardband limits. The method further ...