US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 24 for "Tool anomaly identification device and method for identifying tool anomalies" (Arizona, Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,913, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tool anomaly identification device and method for identifying tool anomalies" was invented by Mohammad Mamunur Rahman (Gilbert, Ariz.), Omesh Tickoo (Portland, Ore.), Nilesh Ahuja (Cupertino, Calif.), Ergin U Genc (Portland, Ore.), Julianne Troiano (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Ibrahima Ndiour (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying a tool anomaly of an printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing process comprising a plurality of phases, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining image data of at least one tool of the PCB manufactur...