US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Aug. 5 for "Method and system for fabricating fiducials for processing of semiconductor devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,159, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method and system for fabricating fiducials for processing of semiconductor devices" was invented by David DeMuynck (Santa Clara, Calif.), Subhash Srinivas Pidaparthi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sharlene Wilson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Karthik Suresh Arulalan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mark Curtice (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew P. Edwards (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Clifford Drowley (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming alignment marks, each alignment mark including a plurality of fiducials, includes providing a II...