ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,348, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and system for intelligent selectivity of material application" was invented by Mudit Sunilkumar Khasgiwala (Milpitas, Calif.) and Subramani Kengeri (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for applying materials to an electronic device may include generating an electromagnetic (EM) map of the device. The EM map may indicate locations of EM radiation emitted from the electronic device. The method may also include generating a thermal map of the electronic device that may indicate locations of thermal energy emitte...