ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,729, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus with semiconductor image processing" was invented by Seong-Jin Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seon Min Rhee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes: identifying input components of a semiconductor pattern of an original input image from the original input image corresponding to an application target of a process for manufacturing a semiconductor, generating an augmented input image by transforming a transformation target comprising one or more of the input componen...