ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,500, issued on March 4, was assigned to SEMES Co. LTD. (Chungcheongnam-Do, South Korea).

"Data processing method and data comparing method" was invented by Ki-Sung Koo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jae Yeong Jeon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The inventive concept provides a method for processing data generated at a substrate treating. The method includes dividing the data according to each process of the substrate treating; and converting the divided data to a same size. In an embodiment, converting the divided data t a same size comprises converting the divided data to the same size using an ID convoluti...