US Patent Issued to D2S on July 29 for "Methods and systems to determine shapes for semiconductor or flat panel display fabrication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,864, issued on July 29, was assigned to D2S INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems to determine shapes for semiconductor or flat panel display fabrication" was invented by Akira Fujimura (Saratoga, Calif.), Nagesh Shirali (San Jose, Calif.) and Donald Oriordan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for calculating a pattern to be manufactured on a substrate include inputting a physical design pattern, determining a plurality of possible neighborhoods for the physical design pattern, generating a plurality of possible mask designs for the physical design pattern, calculating a plurality of possible patterns o...