Patents by Inventor Isabelle BERGOËND

Isabelle BERGOËND 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: 11906302
    Abstract: A method and related system for measuring a surface of a substrate including at least one structure using low coherence optical interferometry, the method being implemented with a system having an interferometric device, a light source, an imaging sensor, and a processing module, the method including: - acquiring, with the imaging sensor, an interferometric signal formed by the interferometric device between a reference beam and a measurement beam reflected by the surface at a plurality of measurement points in a field of view; the following steps being carried out by the processing module: classifying, by a learning technique, the acquired interferometric signals according to a plurality of classes, each class being associated with a reference interferometric signal representative of a typical structure; and analysing the interferometric signals to derive information on the structure at the measurement points, as a function of the class of each interferometric signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: UNITY SEMICONDUCTOR
    Inventors: Jean-François Boulanger, Isabelle Bergoënd
  • Publication number: 20230251079
    Abstract: A method and related system for measuring a surface of a substrate including at least one structure using low coherence optical interferometry, the method being implemented with a system having an interferometric device, a light source, an imaging sensor, and a processing module, and including: —acquiring, with the imaging sensor, an interferometric signal formed by the interferometric device between a reference beam and a measurement beam reflected by the surface at a plurality of measurement points in a field of view; the following steps being carried out by the processing module: classifying, by a learning technique, the acquired interferometric signals according to a plurality of classes, each class being associated with a reference interferometric signal representative of a typical structure; and analysing the interferometric signals to derive therefrom information on the structure at the measurement points, as a function of the class of each interferometric signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Jean-François BOULANGER, Isabelle BERGOËND
  • Patent number: 11713960
    Abstract: A method for measuring a surface of an object including at least one structure using low coherence optical interferometry, the method including the steps of acquiring an interferometric signal at a plurality of measurement points in a field of view and, for at least one measurement point, attributing the interferometric signal acquired to a class of interferometric signals from a plurality of classes, each of the classes being associated with a reference interferometric signal representative of a typical structure; and analysing the interferometric signal to derive therefrom an item of information on the structure at the measurement point, as a function of its class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: UNITY SEMICONDUCTOR
    Inventors: Jean-François Boulanger, Isabelle Bergoënd
  • Publication number: 20220011088
    Abstract: A method for measuring a surface of an object including at least one structure using low coherence optical interferometry, the method including the following steps: acquiring an interferometric signal at a plurality of points, called measurement points, of the surface in a field of view; for at least one measurement point: attributing the interferometric signal acquired to a class of interferometric signals from a plurality of classes, each class being associated with a reference interferometric signal representative of a typical structure; and analysing the interferometric signal to derive therefrom an item of information on the structure at the measurement point, as a function of its class. A measuring system implementing the present method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Jean-François BOULANGER, Isabelle BERGOËND