Patents by Inventor Timothy Dugan
Timothy Dugan 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).
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Publication number: 20240036484Abstract: Disclosed is a method of metrology. The method comprises measuring at least one surrounding observable parameter relating to a surrounding signal contribution to a metrology signal which comprises a contribution to said metrology signal which is not attributable to at least one target being measured and determining a correction from said surrounding signal observable parameter. The correction is used to correct first measurement data relating to measurement of one or more targets using measurement radiation forming a measurement spot on one or more of said one or more targets which is larger than one of said targets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Timothy Dugan DAVIS, Simon Gijsbert Josephus MATHIJSSEN, Kaustuve BHATTACHARYYA, Sebastianus Adrianus GOORDEN, Armand Eugene Albert KOOLEN, Sera JEON, Shuo-Chun LIN
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Patent number: 11703772Abstract: A method including: determining recipe consistencies between one substrate measurement recipe of a plurality of substrate measurement recipes and each other substrate measurement recipe of the plurality of substrate measurement recipes; calculating a function of the recipe consistencies; eliminating the one substrate measurement recipe from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes if the function meets a criterion; and reiterating the determining, calculating and eliminating until a termination condition is met. Also disclosed herein is a substrate measurement apparatus, including a storage configured to store a plurality of substrate measurement recipes, and a processor configured to select one or more substrate measurement recipes from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes based on recipe consistencies among the plurality of substrate measurement recipes.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Arie Jeffrey Den Boef, Timothy Dugan Davis, Peter David Engblom, Kaustuve Bhattacharyya
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Publication number: 20220075276Abstract: A method provides the steps of receiving an image from a metrology tool, determining individual units of said image and discriminating the units which provide accurate metrology values. The images are obtained by measuring the metrology target at multiple wavelengths. The discrimination between the units, when these units are pixels in said image, is based on calculating a degree of similarity between said units.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2019Publication date: March 10, 2022Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Simon Gijsbert Josephus MATHIJSSEN, Marc Johannes NOOT, Kaustuve BHATTACHARYYA, Arie Jeffrey DEN BOEF, Grzegorz GRZELA, Timothy Dugan DAVIS, Olger Victor ZWIER, Ralph Timtheus HUIJGEN, Peter David ENGBLOM, Jan-Willem GEMMINK
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Publication number: 20210103227Abstract: A method including: determining recipe consistencies between one substrate measurement recipe of a plurality of substrate measurement recipes and each other substrate measurement recipe of the plurality of substrate measurement recipes; calculating a function of the recipe consistencies; eliminating the one substrate measurement recipe from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes if the function meets a criterion; and reiterating the determining, calculating and eliminating until a termination condition is met. Also disclosed herein is a substrate measurement apparatus, including a storage configured to store a plurality of substrate measurement recipes, and a processor configured to select one or more substrate measurement recipes from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes based on recipe consistencies among the plurality of substrate measurement recipes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Arie Jeffrey DEN BOEF, Timothy Dugan DAVIS, Peter David ENGBLOM, Kaustuve BHATTACHARYYA
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Patent number: 10908513Abstract: Disclosed are a method, computer program and a metrology apparatus for measuring a process effect parameter relating to a manufacturing process for manufacturing integrated circuits on a substrate. The method comprises determining for a structure, a first quality metric value for a quality metric from a plurality of measurement values each relating to a different measurement condition while cancelling or mitigating for the effect of the process effect parameter on the plurality of measurement values and a second quality metric value for the quality metric from at least one measurement value relating to at least one measurement condition without cancelling or mitigating for the effect of the process effect parameter on the at least one measurement value. The process effect parameter value for the process effect parameter can then be calculated from the first quality metric value and the second quality metric value, for example by calculating their difference.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Marc Johannes Noot, Simon Gijsbert Josephus Mathijssen, Kaustuve Bhattacharyya, Jinmoo Byun, Hyun-Su Kim, Won-Jae Jang, Timothy Dugan Davis
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Patent number: 10901330Abstract: A method including: determining recipe consistencies between one substrate measurement recipe of a plurality of substrate measurement recipes and each other substrate measurement recipe of the plurality of substrate measurement recipes; calculating a function of the recipe consistencies; eliminating the one substrate measurement recipe from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes if the function meets a criterion; and reiterating the determining, calculating and eliminating until a termination condition is met. Also disclosed herein is a substrate measurement apparatus, including a storage configured to store a plurality of substrate measurement recipes, and a processor configured to select one or more substrate measurement recipes from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes based on recipe consistencies among the plurality of substrate measurement recipes.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Arie Jeffrey Den Boef, Timothy Dugan Davis, Peter David Engblom, Kaustuve Bhattacharyya
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Publication number: 20190271921Abstract: A method including: determining recipe consistencies between one substrate measurement recipe of a plurality of substrate measurement recipes and each other substrate measurement recipe of the plurality of substrate measurement recipes; calculating a function of the recipe consistencies; eliminating the one substrate measurement recipe from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes if the function meets a criterion; and reiterating the determining, calculating and eliminating until a termination condition is met. Also disclosed herein is a substrate measurement apparatus, including a storage configured to store a plurality of substrate measurement recipes, and a processor configured to select one or more substrate measurement recipes from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes based on recipe consistencies among the plurality of substrate measurement recipes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Arie Jeffrey Den Boef, Timothy Dugan Davis, Peter David Engblom, Kaustuve Bhattacharyya
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Patent number: 10338484Abstract: A method including: determining recipe consistencies between one substrate measurement recipe of a plurality of substrate measurement recipes and each other substrate measurement recipe of the plurality of substrate measurement recipes; calculating a function of the recipe consistencies; eliminating the one substrate measurement recipe from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes if the function meets a criterion; and reiterating the determining, calculating and eliminating until a termination condition is met. Also disclosed herein is a substrate measurement apparatus, including a storage configured to store a plurality of substrate measurement recipes, and a processor configured to select one or more substrate measurement recipes from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes based on recipe consistencies among the plurality of substrate measurement recipes.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Arie Jeffrey Den Boef, Timothy Dugan Davis, Peter David Engblom, Kaustuve Bhattacharyya
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Publication number: 20190033727Abstract: Disclosed are a method, computer program and a metrology apparatus for measuring a process effect parameter relating to a manufacturing process for manufacturing integrated circuits on a substrate. The method comprises determining for a structure, a first quality metric value for a quality metric from a plurality of measurement values each relating to a different measurement condition while cancelling or mitigating for the effect of the process effect parameter on the plurality of measurement values and a second quality metric value for the quality metric from at least one measurement value relating to at least one measurement condition without cancelling or mitigating for the effect of the process effect parameter on the at least one measurement value. The process effect parameter value for the process effect parameter can then be calculated from the first quality metric value and the second quality metric value, for example by calculating their difference.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Marc Johannes NOOT, Simon Gijsbert Josephus MATHIJSSEN, Kaustuve BHATTACHARYYA, Jinmoo BYUN, Hyun-Su KIM, Won-Jae JANG, Timothy Dugan DAVIS
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Publication number: 20160370717Abstract: A method including: determining recipe consistencies between one substrate measurement recipe of a plurality of substrate measurement recipes and each other substrate measurement recipe of the plurality of substrate measurement recipes; calculating a function of the recipe consistencies; eliminating the one substrate measurement recipe from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes if the function meets a criterion; and reiterating the determining, calculating and eliminating until a termination condition is met. Also disclosed herein is a substrate measurement apparatus, including a storage configured to store a plurality of substrate measurement recipes, and a processor configured to select one or more substrate measurement recipes from the plurality of substrate measurement recipes based on recipe consistencies among the plurality of substrate measurement recipes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Arie Jeffrey DEN BOEF, Timothy Dugan DAVIS, Peter David ENGBLOM, Kaustuve BHATTACHARYYA
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Patent number: 4501227Abstract: A method and apparatus for rearing post-larvae shrimp wherein the shrimp are retained for an initial post-larvae period of growth in a first shrimp rearing means including a first habitat means comprising a first plurality of stacked substrates having a first combined total surface area and wherein the shrimp are retained for at least one subsequent period of growth in at least one further shrimp rearing means including a second habitat means comprising a second plurality of stacked substrates having a second combined total surface area greater than the aforesaid first combined total surface area. In further aspects of the invention, unique filtration means and culling means are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1984Date of Patent: February 26, 1985Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan
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Patent number: 4495891Abstract: A method and apparatus for rearing aquatic animals wherein the animals are retained for an initial period of growth in a first rearing means including a first habitat means comprising a first plurality of stacked substrates having a first combined total surface area and wherein the animals are retained for at least one subsequent period of growth in at least one further rearing means including a second habitat means comprising a second pulrality of stacked substrates having a second combined total surface area greater than the aforesaid first combined total surface area. The habitat means of each rearing means are adapted to be inserted within or removed from the medium of such rearing means, depending on whether it is desired to rear crustaceans or fish, or both, in polyculture. In further aspects of the invention, unique filtration means for continuously filtering the rearing medium and culling means for transferring or harvesting the animals are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1983Date of Patent: January 29, 1985Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan
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Patent number: 4469048Abstract: A method and apparatus for rearing post-larvae shrimp wherein the shrimp are retained for an initial post-larvae period of growth in a first shrimp rearing means including a first habitat means comprising a first plurality of stacked substrates having a first combined total surface area and wherein the shrimp are retained for at least one subsequent period of growth in at least one further shrimp rearing means including a second habitat means comprising a second plurality of stacked substrates having a second combined total surface area greater than the aforesaid first combined total surface area. In further aspects of the invention, unique filtration means and culling means are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1981Date of Patent: September 4, 1984Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan
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Patent number: 4467743Abstract: A method and apparatus for rearing post-larvae shrimp wherein the shrimp are retained for an initial post-larvae period of growth in a first shrimp rearing means including a first habitat means comprising a first plurality of stacked substrates having a first combined total surface area and wherein the shrimp are retained for at least one subsequent period of growth in at least one further shrimp rearing means including a second habitat means comprising a second plurality of stacked substrates having a second combined total surface area greater than the aforesaid first combined total surface area. In further aspects of the invention, unique filtration means and culling means are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1982Date of Patent: August 28, 1984Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan
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Patent number: 4440109Abstract: A method and apparatus for rearing post-larvae shrimp wherein the shrimp are retained for an initial post-larvae period of growth in a first shrimp rearing means including a first habitat means comprising a first plurality of stacked substrates having a first combined total surface area and wherein the shrimp are retained for at least one subsequent period of growth in at least one further shrimp rearing means including a second habitat means comprising a second plurality of stacked substrates having a second combined total surface area greater than the aforesaid first combined total surface area. In further aspects of the invention, unique filtration means and culling means are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1981Date of Patent: April 3, 1984Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan
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Patent number: 4392454Abstract: An apparatus and method for rearing shrimp through the larvae stage wherein the shrimp are subjected to controlled conditions and a common enclosure for the male and female adult shrimp is provided which permits uncontrolled access of the shrimp to one another and wherein the shrimp are maintained through a plurality of cycles of mating, spawning and hatching. The system is further provided with filtration means for filtering the medium of the common enclosure and with collecting means for collecting hatched shrimp at preselected times from the common enclosure medium as the medium moves into the filtration means.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1980Date of Patent: July 12, 1983Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan
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Patent number: 4389974Abstract: An apparatus and method for rearing shrimp through the larvae stage wherein the shrimp are subjected to controlled conditions and a common enclosure for the male and female adult shrimp is provided which permits uncontrolled access of the shrimp to one another and wherein the shrimp are maintained through a plurality of cycles of mating, spawning and hatching. The system is further provided with filtration means for filtering the medium of the common enclosure and with collecting means for collecting hatched shrimp at preselected times from the common enclosure medium as the medium moves into the filtration means.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1980Date of Patent: June 28, 1983Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan
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Patent number: 4382423Abstract: A method and apparatus for rearing aquatic animals wherein the animals are retained for an initial period of growth in a first rearing means including a first habitat means comprising a first plurality of stacked substrates having a first combined total surface area and wherein the animals are retained for at least one subsequent period of growth in at least one further rearing means including a second habitat means comprising a second plurality of stacked substrates having a second combined total surface area greater than the aforesaid first combined total surface area. The habitat means of each rearing means are adapted to be inserted within or removed from the medium of such rearing means, depending on whether it is desired to rear crustaceans or fish, or both, in polyculture. In further aspects of the invention, unique filtration means for continuously filtering the rearing medium and culling means for transferring or harvesting the animals are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1979Date of Patent: May 10, 1983Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan
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Patent number: 4285298Abstract: A method and apparatus for rearing post-larvae shrimp wherein the shrimp are retained for an initial post-larvae period of growth in a first shrimp rearing means including a first habitat means comprising a first plurality of stacked substrates having a first combined total surface area and wherein the shrimp are retained for at least one subsequent period of growth in at least one further shrimp rearing means including a second habitat means comprising a second plurality of stacked substrates having a second combined total surface area greater than the aforesaid first combined total surface area. In further aspects of the invention, unique filtration means and culling means are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1978Date of Patent: August 25, 1981Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan
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Patent number: 4250835Abstract: An apparatus and method for rearing shrimp through the larvae stage wherein the shrimp are subjected to controlled conditions and a common enclosure for the male and female adult shrimp is provided which permits uncontrolled access of the shrimp to one another and wherein the shrimp are maintained through a plurality of cycles of mating, spawning and hatching. The system is further provided with filtration means for filtering the medium of the common enclosure and with collecting means for collecting hatched shrimp at preselected times from the common enclosure medium as the medium moves into the filtration means. In further aspects of the invention, an improved larvae tank structure and larvae feeding system are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 1979Date of Patent: February 17, 1981Assignee: Farm Fresh Shrimp CorporationInventors: Charles Dugan, Timothy Dugan