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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8190279 | Production line management system An apparatus, system and method for line management. The apparatus, system and method includes data indicative of a plurality of items to pass through the line, a plurality of available processes, and a plurality of available streams. Ones of the plurality of availa... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8095229 | Three-dimensional (3D) manufacturing process planning Manufacturing process planning is usually considered as not intuitive for non-expert user. This is because a user needs to deal with processes, describing a work to be done, and other abstract concepts that are loosely related to the real world. Accordingly, a metho... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8050783 | System and method for pre-distorting a device input A method for pre-distorting an input for a device is provided. A partial set of known data pairs is acquired during a closed-loop device calibration period. The partial set of known data pairs is searched for at least one missing data pair, and at least one data val... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7974719 | Method and an apparatus for automatic manufacture of an object with multiple intersecting components Systems and methods for the automatic manufacture of a multiple component object with intersecting components based on a standard design model of the object. The systems and methods according to the invention are capable of automatically extracting from a design mod... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7930049 | Control method for a substrate processing apparatus A centralized control apparatus includes a data collecting part that gathers data at a predetermined interval from a substrate processing apparatus for each component in the substrate processing apparatus; a data processing part that determines a status of each comp... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7899566 | Factory level and tool level advanced process control systems integration implementation Integration of factory level advanced process control (FL-APC) system and tool level advanced process control (TL-APC) system using selectable APC operation modes indicating different operational settings for the FL-APC system and at least one TL-APC system is discl... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7873428 | Automated job management A method and apparatus are disclosed for improving the implementation of automated job management for equipment in a factory. A software library is provided that allows a job management client, such as a thin station controller client, to communicate with an equipme... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7831323 | Control system and method therefor A flexible control system and method of controlling a processing operation. The control system and method may be employed to control a high speed manufacturing system for processing articles of manufacture requiring processes to be performed on the articles at a pre... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7818081 | Method for optimizing a manufacturing process having a plurality of interconnected discreet operating stations A process to control product throughput in a multi-station manufacturing system is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of: providing the manufacturing system as a plurality of discrete operating stations; separating the plurality of pathways into a plurality ... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7797067 | Production management program, production management method, and production management system A computer-readable recording medium recording a production management program that causes a computer to execute: a first process, based on a component table in which a group of components constituting a product is defined and on production planning information of t... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7725205 | Apparatus and methods for providing a homogenous I/O interface for controlling a heterogenous mixture of hardware I/O systems Disclosed are apparatus and methods for controlling a heterogeneous mixture of hardware devices in a variety of semiconductor process equipment. In general, a generic Input and Output (I/O) interface is provided between a process management module for specifying con... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7702409 | Graphics integration into a process configuration and control environment Graphic elements and graphic displays are provided for use in a process environment to display information to one or more users about the process environment, such as the current state of device within a process plant. The graphic elements and display may be associa... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7698010 | Methods, systems and computer program products for altering video images to aid an operator of a fastener insertion machine The present invention provides methods, systems and computer program products for altering video images including superimposing objects onto the images, particularly addressed to identifying fastener insertion locations onto displayed images of a work pieces. The in... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7668613 | MES appliance integrated with control modules Activities within various environments (e.g., industrial control environment) can be automated through a number of interchangeable modules configured to perform an action or series of actions. Each interchangeable module can be dedicated to a specific function or ta... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7613535 | Independent, self-contained, risk isolated, sectional CIM design for extremely large scale factory operation A semiconductor manufacturing system includes a centralized computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) system; a plurality of sectional CIM systems respectively associated with a plurality of manufacturing facilities and coupled with the centralized CIM system; and a c... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7613534 | Web based semiconductor ordering architecture A semiconductor fabrication architecture which includes a middleware component, a fabrication facility coupled to the middleware component, a real time dispatcher application program interface coupled between the fabrication facility and the middleware component, a ... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7571017 | Intelligent data multiplexer An Intelligent Data Multiplexer (“IDM”) can be used to interface a plurality of host computers with a semiconductor manufacturing tool. In one embodiment, the IDM has a plurality of host-side ports configured to receive messages from each of the host computers i... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7551974 | Processing method of workpieces using combined processing machines Plural combined processing machines perform various processes to workpieces W. The combined processing machines are arranged in a processing line according to a volume of products of the workpieces, operating time of the combined processing machines and a tact time ... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7489980 | Factory level and tool level advanced process control systems integration implementation Integration of factory level advanced process control (FL-APC) system and tool level advanced process control (TL-APC) system using selectable APC operation modes indicating different operational settings for the FL-APC system and at least one TL-APC system is discl... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7451007 | Integration of MES and controls engineering The invention relates to a system and a method for integrated development of projects of different levels, especially of automation projects in the MES and Controls area. The integrated development is facilitated by the use of uniform models. In this case a first pr... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7437204 | Method and apparatus for monitoring host to tool communications An aspect of the present invention includes a method and device for listening to communications between processes and tools, recording report and report trigger definitions, matching reports from tools with the recorded definitions, and translating messages into a c... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426419 | Scheduling system and method Photolithography operation in a wafer fab using relative weightings of work in progress to iteratively schedule wafers. ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7421363 | Method for virtual inspection of virtually machined parts A method for implementing a virtual inspection of a virtually machined workpiece is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the method includes defining a set of master reference planes, defining a set of positioning planes with respect to the set of master reference... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415375 | Systems and methods for food waste monitoring A food waste monitoring system and related methods are disclosed. The food waste monitoring system may include a local food waste monitoring device that is coupled to an electronic scale for weighing food waste. The monitoring device may capture and record the weigh... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409253 | System and method for processing a substrate and program therefor A substrate processing system allows to reduce the number of works that should be done by a software engineer. The system 100 includes a substrate processing apparatus 101; a substrate processing controller 102 for controlling the substrate proc... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409254 | Data management system and trace system A design data management program directs a computer to perform a procedure of converting design data generated at a designing side to a data format applicable to a production side and transmitting the data to the production side, and a procedure of converting the da... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7395131 | Method for processing data based on the data context A method for managing collected data in a semiconductor processing environment. The collected data can include: raw data collected during a process, trace file data received during a process, and process log file data received during a process. The raw data is synch... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7380213 | User interface for reporting event-based production information in product manufacturing User interface for reporting event-based production information in product manufacturing. Some of the disclosed embodiments include a system, method, computer-readable medium, and display device for processing data stored in a database. The data includes automatical... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376481 | Methods and control systems for controlling semiconductor device manufacturing processes A method of controlling a semiconductor device manufacturing process for a product which is newly applied and a control system for the same process are provided. According to an embodiment on the control method, a sample process time for a product applied to the sem... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7371067 | Simulation method for designing customized medical devices The invention provides a system for virtually designing a medical device conformed for use with a specific patient. Using the system, a three-dimensional geometric model of a patient-specific body cavity or lumen is reconstructed from scanned volume images such as o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373396 | Information delivery system and method and program of the system An information delivery system and its method and a program of the system, in which plural robots are used and users can obtain information effectively via the plural robots from the wider range than the range where only one robot moves, are provided. Each of the pl... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369911 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing movement of work-in-process materials in an automated manufacturing environment Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing movement of work-in-process materials between processing units in an automated manufacturing environment are provided. A system includes a host system in communication with a work-in-process (WIP) material... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369905 | Method and apparatus for pressure and plasma control during transitions used to create graded interfaces by multi-step PECVD deposition A method and apparatus are provided for a graded PECVD process that continuously modulates a set of flow and pressure conditions while the plasma power is turned on and a film is being deposited. A feedback mechanism specific to a give deposition recipe is used to g... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366643 | System, method, and storage medium for determining a packaging design for a container A system, method, and storage medium for determining packaging design for one or more containers are provided. The method includes selecting at least one 3-D CAD model of a manufactured part. The method further includes selecting a first 3-D CAD model of a first con... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7364922 | Automated semiconductor wafer salvage during processing The present invention provides a recovery processing method to restore the substrate processing apparatus to an operating state after correcting an abnormality having occurred in the substrate processing apparatus in operation and having resulted in a stop in the op... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359768 | Route input system A software-enabled Route Input System (RIS) process facilitates consistent communication among the various entities involved in route creation, where the entities have different tasks and objectives. The primary teams are the process flow definers (IE), individual p... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359886 | Injection-molding cost estimation system An estimation system for estimating an injection-molding related cost comprises an input unit, storage, a data processing unit, and an output unit. The storage stores a mold estimation function for each of cost items of a mold used to produce a molded product, and a... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356740 | Hazard mitigation in medical device Delivery of energy by a defibrillator or other medical device is inhibited when the processor or software that controls a module of the medical device operates abnormally. A windowed watchdog timer (WWDT) incorporated into one module of the medical device is used to... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356762 | Method for the automatic generation of an interactive electronic equipment documentation package An interactive electronic equipment document production system is disclosed. Documents from different sources are standardized in a conversion process, provided with tags in a tagging process that provides information connecting an initial locating with another loca... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353221 | Method for the automatic retrieval of engineering data of systems The invention relates to a method for the automatic retrieval of engineering data from installations. The engineering and runtime objects are described by a uniform object model. This allows the correspondence between engineering objects and runtime objects to be de... | 04/01/2008 |
