US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on March 17 for "Machine learning model generation and updating for manufacturing equipment" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,444, issued on March 17, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Machine learning model generation and updating for manufacturing equipment" was invented by Pengyu Han (Fremont, Calif.), Hong-Rui Chen (Taichung City, Taiwan), Shu-Yu Chen (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Wan-Hsueh Lai (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Pin Ham Lu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Zhengping Yao (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining that conditions of a processing chamber have changed since a trained machine learning model associated with the processing chamber was trained. The method further includes determining wheth...