Patents by Inventor Tony L. Davis

Tony L. Davis 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).

  • Predictive maintenance for third party support equipment
    Patent number: 8560106
    Abstract: A server receives equipment data from third party support equipment during operation of the third party support equipment in a manufacturing environment. The server receives the equipment data via a first port on the third party support equipment. The third party support equipment communicates with a process tool via a second port on third party support equipment. The server determines a future state of the third party support equipment based on the equipment data and notifies a user of the future state of the third party support equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Swyers, Manjunath Yedatore, Tony L. Davis, Donn Turner, Michael W. Johnson
  • PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE FOR THIRD PARTY SUPPORT EQUIPMENT
    Publication number: 20120191225
    Abstract: A server receives equipment data from third party support equipment during operation of the third party support equipment in a manufacturing environment. The server receives the equipment data via a first port on the third party support equipment. The third party support equipment communicates with a process tool via a second port on third party support equipment. The server determines a future state of the third party support equipment based on the equipment data and notifies a user of the future state of the third party support equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: John R. Swyers, Manjunath Yedatore, Tony L. Davis, Donn Turner, Michael W. Johnson
  • Method and apparatus for analyzing manufacturing data
    Patent number: 6965895
    Abstract: A method for data mining information obtained in an integrated circuit fabrication factory (“fab”) that includes steps of: (a) gathering data from the fab from one or more of systems, tools, and databases that produce data in the fab or collect data from the fab; (b) formatting the data and storing the formatted data in a source database; (c) extracting portions of the data for use in data mining in accordance with a user specified configuration file; (d) data mining the extracted portions of data in response to a user specified analysis configuration file; (e) storing results of data mining in a results database; and (f) providing access to the results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn B. Smith, Brian P. Grigsby, Hung J. Pham, Tony L. Davis, Manjunath S. Yedatore, William R. Clements, III
  • Method and apparatus for analyzing manufacturing data
    Publication number: 20030061212
    Abstract: A method for data mining information obtained in an integrated circuit fabrication factory (“fab”) that includes steps of: (a) gathering data from the fab from one or more of systems, tools, and databases that produce data in thefab or collect data from the fab; (b) formatting the data and storing the formatted data in a source database; (c) extracting portions of the data for use in data mining in accordance with a user specified configuration file; (d) data mining the extracted portions of data in response to a user specified analysis configuration file; (e) storing results of data mining in a results database; and (f) providing access to the results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn B. Smith, Brian P. Grigsby, Hung J. Pham, Tony L. Davis, Manjunath S. Yedatore, William R. Clements