ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,705, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Chamber matching by equipment constant updates" was invented by Sidharth Bhatia (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Roger Lindley (Santa Clara, Calif.), Upendra Ummethala (Cupertino, Calif.), Thomas Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Michael Howells (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Babayan (Los Altos, Calif.) and Mimi-Diemmy Dao (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a processing device, data indicative of performance of a plurality of process chambers. The method further includes providing the data indicative of performance of the ...