Patents by Inventor Chun-Hsiang YEN

Chun-Hsiang YEN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250224343
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method of examination of a semiconductor specimen. The method includes obtaining a group of defect candidates associated with respective inspection locations represented in an inspection coordinate system; using a trained machine learning (ML) model to provide, for each defect candidate, a probability of the defect candidate being a defect of interest (DOI), and ranking the group of defect candidates to an ordered list according to respective probabilities thereof, in response to a part of the ordered list of defect candidates being reviewed by a review tool in accordance with an order thereof, receiving a predefined number of DOIs associated with respective review locations represented in a review coordinate system; and calculating an offset between the review coordinate system and the inspection coordinate system based on respective inspection and review locations associated with the predefined number of DOIs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Albert KAO, Shih-Wei YANG, Chun-Hsiang YEN, Boaz COHEN, Yen Cheng CHIANG, Ching-Hung LAI, Chenwei HUANG
  • Patent number: 10288409
    Abstract: A system that may include a movable support module for supporting an object and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to: receive an estimated location of a movable support module that supports an object and temperature information about an actual or estimated temperature of at least a portion of the object support module; and calculate movable support module location information, in response to (a) the estimated location of the movable support module, (b) the temperature information, and (c) a mapping between (i) values of the temperature information, (ii) estimated locations of the movable support module, and (iii) location errors of the movable support module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD.
    Inventors: Yuval Gronau, Chun-Hsiang Yen, Barak Dee-Noor
  • Patent number: 10074512
    Abstract: A system that may include a chamber, a motorized system, a chuck, a controller, multiple temperature sensors and a cooling module; wherein the chuck is configured to support an object that is positioned within the chamber; wherein the motorized system is configured to move the chuck in relation to the chamber; wherein the multiple temperature sensors are configured to sense multiple temperatures of at least one point within the chamber; wherein the cooling module is configured to cool a unit of the motorized system; and wherein the controller is configured to control the cooling module in response to the multiple temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS ISRAEL LTD.
    Inventors: Chun-Hsiang Yen, Barak Dee-Noor, Yuval Gronau, Ronen Hagai, Efim Vinnitsky, Yohanan Madmon
  • Publication number: 20170011882
    Abstract: A system that may include a chamber, a motorized system, a chuck, a controller, multiple temperature sensors and a cooling module; wherein the chuck is configured to support an object that is positioned within the chamber; wherein the motorized system is configured to move the chuck in relation to the chamber; wherein the multiple temperature sensors are configured to sense multiple temperatures of at least one point within the chamber; wherein the cooling module is configured to cool a unit of the motorized system; and wherein the controller is configured to control the cooling module in response to the multiple temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Chun-Hsiang Yen, Barak Dee-Noor, Yuval Gronau, Ronen Hagai, Efim Vinnitsky, Yohanan Madmon
  • Publication number: 20160290786
    Abstract: A system that may include a movable support module for supporting an object and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to: receive an estimated location of a movable support module that supports an object and temperature information about an actual or estimated temperature of at least a portion of the object support module; and calculate movable support module location information, in response to (a) the estimated location of the movable support module, (b) the temperature information, and (c) a mapping between (i) values of the temperature information, (ii) estimated locations of the movable support module, and (iii) location errors of the movable support module
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Yuval GRONAU, Chun-Hsiang YEN, Barak DEE-NOOR