ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,122, issued on July 8, was assigned to NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY (Tainan, Taiwan).
"Golden path search method for manufacturing process and system thereof" was invented by Chin-Yi Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Fan-Tien Cheng (Tainan, Taiwan), Ching-Kang Ing (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Ming Hsieh (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Po-Hsiang Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A golden path search method for manufacturing process provides a two-phase process to search for a golden path. A first phase step of the two-phase process includes preparing a search model based on a search algorithm, and selecting a plurality of key process stages ...