ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,175, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Eco-efficiency (sustainability) dashboard for semiconductor manufacturing" was invented by Ala Moradian (San Jose, Calif.), Elizabeth Neville (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Umesh Madhav Kelkar (Cupertino, Calif.), Mark R. Denome (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Prashanth Kothnur (San Jose, Calif.), Karthik Ramanathan (Karnataka, India), Kartik Shah (Saratoga, Calif.), Orlando Trejo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sergey Meirovich (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first selection of a first fabrication process and/or first manufacturing equipment to perform manuf...