Patents by Inventor Dominic Gerald David

Dominic Gerald David 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).

  • Patent number: 7047101
    Abstract: A semiconductor measurement recipe architecture organized to include reusable sub-recipes, each defining at least one parameter associated with either a semiconductor wafer and/or a semiconductor disposed thereon, is disclosed. This recipe architecture will include a set of parameter dependencies, one or more which having a respective relationship with of the sub-recipes to permit safe and reliable sub-recipe reuse. Also disclosed is a recipe generation method including: determining an appropriate baseline existing recipe that's organized to include a set of parameter dependencies and dependency related sub-recipes; perceiving a dependency change; determining which, if any, of the sub-recipes of the existing recipe remain unaffected after the dependency change(s); and generating a new recipe using at least one of the sub-recipes found to be unaffected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Young, Dominic Gerald David