ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,199, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Overlay correction method, and exposure method and semiconductor device manufacturing method including overlay correction method" was invented by Wooyong Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dohun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joonhyun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jeongjin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungyoon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Chan Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an overlay correction method for effectively correcting an overlay due to degradation of a wafer table, and an exposure method...