Patents by Inventor Ercan U. Acar

Ercan U. Acar 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).

  • Mechanism for execution of global flow changes in a manufacturing system
    Patent number: 7483760
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for upfront specification of lot process parameters to enable automated processing is disclosed. The method comprises building a hierarchical representation of a process plan for a manufacturing object using data structures to represent operational flows of the manufacturing object, performing a query execution on the hierarchical representation to determine one or more of the data structures affected by a global flow change (GFC), and implementing a locking protocol to preserve data integrity in the one or more data structures affected by the GFC. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jiang Qu, Ercan U. Acar, Charles H. Winstead