US Patent Issued to APPLIED MATERIALS on July 28 for "Pre-bonding automatic optical inspection defect classification" (Indian, Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,505, issued on July 28, was assigned to APPLIED MATERIALS Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Pre-bonding automatic optical inspection defect classification" was invented by Rahul Reddy Komatireddi (Bangalore, India), Rohith Cherikkallil (Bangalore, India), Sneha Rupa Kongara (Bangalore, India), Satwik Swarup Mishra (Bengaluru, India), Sachin Dangayach (San Jose, Calif.), Si En Chan (Singapore), Remus Zhen Hui Koh (Singapore), Prayudi Lianto (Singapore), Yin Wei Lim (Singapore), Peng Suo (Singapore), Krishnaprasad Reddy Mallavaram (Bangalore, India) and Khor Wui Cheng (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and system ...