ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,946, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Verification for improving quality of maintenance of manufacturing equipment" was invented by Tarpan Tushar Dixit (Durango, Colo.), Gyan Prakash (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Achyuth Madhav Diwakar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described including a server and manufacturing equipment, wherein the system is configured to initiate a maintenance process of the manufacturing equipment. The maintenance process includes a number of maintenance stages. The system is further configured to provide, to a user device, an instruct...