ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,921, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine learning platform for substrate processing" was invented by David Everton Norman (Bountiful, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes identifying at least one of historical data associated with historical substrate lots processed by substrate processing tools in a substrate processing facility or simulated data for simulated substrate lots processed by simulated substrate processing tools. The method further includes generating features from the at least one of the historical data for the historical substrate lots or the simula...