US Patent Issued to Sumitomo Electric Industries, National University Corporation Hokkaido University on July 28 for "Pattern generation device, pattern generation method and non-transitory computer-readable medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,187, issued on July 28, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and National University Corporation Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan).

"Pattern generation device, pattern generation method and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Takeshi Kawasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Hajime Igarashi (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pattern generation device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to generate pattern data corresponding to a pattern of a metal layer based on a generation condition, determine whether the generated pattern data sati...