ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,580, issued on June 16, was assigned to KLA Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Recommender systems and methods for autonomous mode selection in inspection and other tools" was invented by Raghavan Konuru (Kurnool, India), Jeetsagar Ghorai (Chennai, India), Jacob George (Cochin, India), Niveditha LakshmiNarasimhan (Chennai, India), Sairam Ravu (Chennai, India), Saravanan Paramasivam (Chennai, India), Martin Plihal (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Prasanti Uppaluri (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for selecting modes for a mode selection process are provided. One system includes a computer subsystem configured for d...