ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,339, issued on June 23, was assigned to KLA Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"System and method of fiber location mapping in a multi-beam system" was invented by Sameet K. Shriyan (Milpitas, Calif.), Frank Essmeier (Milpitas, Calif.) and Hedong Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-beam system includes a light source configured to emit light; a fiber bundle connected to the light source; and a camera configured to capture an image set including images corresponding to each fiber connected to the light source. The fiber bundle includes a central fiber having one end connected to the light source, and N layers of fi...