ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,418, issued on March 3, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Processing equipment and its control system and control method" was invented by Jing-Han Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Hsuan Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yuan-Chieh Lo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a control system for controlling a processing equipment, and a control method thereof comprises: transmitting a processing signal to a processing unit via an input unit when the processing equipment generates the processing signal for processing a workpiece, so that the processing unit predicts ...