US Patent Issued to KLA on Oct. 21 for "Automatic method to find extent of repeating geometry in an integrated circuit layout" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,857, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KLA Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Automatic method to find extent of repeating geometry in an integrated circuit layout" was invented by Gordon Rouse (Dublin, Calif.) and Srivathsan Krishnamohan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for determining information for an area having unknown patterns and unknown pattern repeatability are provided. One or more computer systems of the system are configured for detecting first and second polygons in first and second rows, respectively, in a design for a specimen. The first and second rows have first dimensions perpendic...