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8442802 Method of diagnosing air conditioner and mobile terminal equipment for performing method  
A method of diagnosing an air conditioner and mobile terminal equipment for performing the method are provided. The method of diagnosing the air conditioner using mobile terminal equipment includes...
8437870 System and method for implementing a virtual metrology advanced process control platform  
System and method for implementing a VM APC platform are described. In one embodiment, the VM APC system comprises a process tool for processing a plurality of wafers, a metrology tool for...
8433433 System and method for determining whether an ultrasonic horn is aligned with an anvil  
A system and a method for determining whether an ultrasonic horn is aligned with an anvil of an ultrasonic welding system are provided. The first and second accelerometer sensors generate first and...
8428849 Engine control program, method and apparatus  
Setting values of a fuel injection quantity for an engine having an exhaust gas recirculator (EGR) and variable nozzle turbo (VNT), and an engine speed, and measurement values of a manifold air...
8423168 Bottleneck device extracting method and bottleneck device extracting assistance device  
A method and system of specifying a device that is the root cause of impeding productivity of a production line in consideration of even mutual influence among processes of production fluctuation...
8412368 Method and apparatus for routing dispatching and routing reticles  
A method includes generating a reticle transport job using a computing device. The reticle job identifies a selected reticle. A reticle pod available for transporting the reticle is autonomously...
8410931 Mobile inventory unit monitoring systems and methods  
Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to mobile inventory unit monitoring systems and methods. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a mobile inventory...
8406912 System and method for data mining and feature tracking for fab-wide prediction and control  
System and method for data mining and feature tracking for fab-wide prediction and control are described. One embodiment is a system comprising a database for storing raw wafer manufacturing data;...
8406911 Implementing sequential segmented interleaving algorithm for enhanced process control  
A method and apparatus are provided for implementing Advanced Process Control (APC) for enhanced electrical, magnetic, or physical properties process output control using a sequential segmented...
8400309 Hygiene compliance  
A system and method of monitoring compliance with a hygiene protocol is disclosed. The movement of person within or otherwise associated with a facility may be tracked and hygiene requirements may...
8392009 Advanced process control with novel sampling policy  
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor manufacturing method. The method includes performing a first process to a first plurality of semiconductor wafers; determining a sampling rate to the...
8391998 Method for controlling and/or regulating an industrial process  
The invention relates to a method for controlling and/or regulating an industrial process for producing or processing products, wherein a physicomathematical model of the industrial process is...
8386063 Electronic component mounting apparatus and stopping method of electronic component mounting apparatus  
A foreign matter detection unit detects an entry of an unexpected foreign matter that is other than the substrates by light transmitting optical sensors 7 having light projecting portions 7a and...
8380335 Limit repository limit model and related system and method  
An apparatus includes at least one memory configured to store application information associated with multiple process control applications used to control an industrial process. The application...
8364300 Retrieving and navigating through manufacturing data from relational and time-series systems by abstracting the source systems into a set of named entities  
A software agent is described that receives an information request to retrieve information based on a name defined by a configured manufacturing data model. The agent serves the request by relating...
8359117 Substrate processing system  
Provided is a substrate processing system configured to provide proper data. The substrate processing system comprises a substrate processing apparatus comprising a plurality of components, a...
8359116 Production management system  
A monitoring system includes a control circuit configured to determine scrap values, yield values, and remainder values for at least a first operation and a second operation. The control circuit is...
8355808 Server device of group management system having function of performing fault detection and program  
It is possible to compose a chart by filtering measurement information using a product wafer number in a server device including: an instruction receiving unit for storing therein plural...
8355807 Method and apparatus for using aerial image sensitivity to model mask errors  
One embodiment of the present invention provides techniques and systems for modeling mask errors based on aerial image sensitivity. During operation, the system can receive an uncalibrated process...
8352216 System and method for advanced condition monitoring of an asset system  
A method for advanced condition monitoring of an asset system includes sensing actual values of an operating condition for an operating regime of the asset system using at least one sensor;...
8352062 Advanced process control for gate profile control  
A method for fabricating a integrated circuit with improved performance is disclosed. The method comprises providing a substrate; performing a plurality of processes to form a gate stack over the...
8347268 Automated performance monitoring  
Performance tracking of computing systems can be provided by monitoring, determining performance states, and displaying health information. Capacity planning recommendations can be provided by...
8339414 Monitoring graphics processing  
A graphics processing apparatus is provided with rendering circuitry which separately renders different areas of a frame of pixel values. Monitoring circuitry coupled to the rendering circuitry...
8339260 Securing a hazardous area in the regin surrounding the automatic loading of reels on a reel changer  
A hazardous area in the region surrounding a reel transport of a reel changer is secured. A contactless protective device is located at the access boundaries of the region. This protective device...
8335582 Software application to analyze event log and chart tool fail rate as function of chamber and recipe  
In one embodiment, a method for providing a user interface to graphically indicate a cause for fault-related events includes providing a user interface to illustrate a plurality of fault-related...
8335581 Flexible job preparation and control  
Preparation of a wafer processing or measuring tool for a job can be initiated prior to assigning a wafer carrier to deliver wafers to the tool. The automated process may include transfer of wafers...
8328950 Foreign material contamination detection  
There are provided a system, method and computer program product for detecting foreign materials in a semiconductor manufacturing process. The manufacturing process uses a plurality of...
8332063 Apparatus and method for process control using people and asset tracking information  
An apparatus, method, and computer program for process control using people and asset tracking information are provided. One or more process control data elements are received, which define a...
8332064 Polishing method and polishing apparatus, and program for controlling polishing apparatus  
A polishing method can bring a polishing surface to the optimum condition for polishing, without using a dummy wafer, before resuming polishing, thereby eliminating the cost of dummy wafer. The...
8321602 Device management apparatus, device management method and device management program  
A device management apparatus may include, but is not limited to, a device controller that controls a device, a communication controller, a management unit, and a monitoring unit. The communication...
8321045 Validating information within production event messages for recording non-trending production data and events  
A production information reporting/recording system is disclosed herein including a number of features to ensure efficient, flexible and reliable recording of production data in a manufacturing...
8321819 Lithography mask functional optimization and spatial frequency analysis  
In an electronic design automation technique for optical proximity correction, a mask is represented by a function with an exact analytical form over a mask region. Using the physics of optical...
8321046 Substrate processing apparatus  
A substrate processing apparatus including a controller connected to a plurality of sub-controllers for controlling a substrate processing, and an operating section having a display unit for...
8315729 Enhancing investigation of variability by inclusion of similar objects with known differences to the original ones  
A system, method and/or computer program product for analyzing a functionality of at least two manufactured products obtain a first characteristic of a first manufactured product. The system...
8311659 Identifying non-randomness in integrated circuit product yield  
A method of analyzing integrated circuit (IC) product yield can include storing, within a memory of a system comprising a processor, parametric data from a manufacturing process of an IC and...
8311658 System and method for monitoring completed manufacturing operations  
An electronic torque wrench having a flexible head provides accurate torque measurements irrespective of the angular position of the head relative to a handle on which the force is applied. The...
8311666 System and method for separating defective dies from wafer  
A system separating defective dies from a wafer comprises a film frame platform and a pick-and-place device. The film frame platform comprises a support table assembly configured for supporting a...
8312407 Integration of open space/dummy metal at CAD for physical debug of new silicon  
An access pad is used to provide access to a functional block of an integrated circuit (IC) device. The access pad is formed using dummy metal in an open space in a metallization level that is...
8301289 Defect detection method of display device and defect detection apparatus of display device  
A defect detecting method of a display device includes a defect counting process that measuring a feature amount for each partial region of a display device (P32), and counting regions which is...
8294585 Complete hand care  
A complete hand hygiene station and method of monitoring a complete hand hygiene station are provided. The complete hand hygiene station may include at least an automated wash cylinder or chamber,...
8295964 Method for selecting equipment resources in a manufacturing process  
A method for selecting equipment resources in a manufacturing process creates an execution equipment list by retrieving out of a database execution equipment required for starting a process...
8294571 Object location and reporting system for harsh RF environments  
A system verifies torquing of pressure fittings in an aircraft wheel well. A strain gauge and an ultra-wide band (UWB) pulse signal generator are placed on a wrench used to torque the fittings. The...
8295969 Combinatorial processing management system  
A combinatorial processing management system is described, including determining an identification for a substrate, retrieving data from tools operating on the substrate, generating an analysis of...
8290610 Method and apparatus for manufacturing an article and generating a report  
The present disclosure discloses a method of manufacturing an article. According to at least one embodiment, a set of manufacturing instructions is stored for a machine, and at least one of the...
8285513 Method and system of using inferential measurements for abnormal event detection in continuous industrial processes  
The present invention is a method and system for detecting an abnormal on-line analysis or laboratory measurement and for predicting an abnormal quality excursion due to an abnormal process condition.
8280534 Control and monitoring system  
When a system operator selects a message to be analyzed from among a plurality of messages listed in a state change list displayed on an HMI unit, a monitoring target is identified from the...
8270008 System and method for on-demand generation of a selectable input for enacting a previous document processing device control sequence  
The subject application is directed to a system and method for on-demand generation of a selectable input for enacting a previous document processing device control sequence. User identification...
8265781 Monitoring unit for a device for manipulating containers  
A device for manipulating containers, comprising a manipulation unit manipulating the containers in a predetermined manner, this manipulation unit including at least one condition detection unit...
8264715 Approach for implementing locked printing with remote unlock on printing devices  
An approach is provided for implementing locked printing on a printing device with remote unlock. The printing device includes a locked print process that is configured to examine print data...
8254568 Secure booting a computing device  
A method and an apparatus for executing codes embedded inside a device to verify a code image loaded in a memory of the device are described. A code image may be executed after being verified as a...