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KLA Corporation

City:

Milpitas, California

Country:

United States

Published Applications:

553

Last publication date:

2026-05-21

Patent Grants:

539

Last grant date:

2026-05-19

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Recent patent applications by KLA Corporation

KLA Corporation based in Milpitas, US has been assigned the rights to these inventions. The list includes both Pending Applications and Patent Grants:

#1 | 2026-05-21
US20260142436A1
Electricity

High Power 193 Nanometer Continuous-Wave Laser Light

#2 | 2026-04-30 ✅ Patent 12,635,472 granted on 2026-05-19
US20260123348A1
Electricity

CLEANROOM COMPATIBLE ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR EXCHANGE SYSTEM

#3 | 2026-02-26
US20260056473A1
Physics

Catoptric System Using Scheimpflug Optics

#4 | 2025-12-04
US20250372410A1
Electricity

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING SUPERCRITICAL CO2 DRYING

#5 | 2025-10-09
US20250316437A1
Electricity

ULTRA-HIGH SENSITIVITY HYBRID INSPECTION WITH FULL WAFER COVERAGE CAPABILITY

#6 | 2025-10-02 ✅ Patent 12,529,878 granted on 2026-01-20
US20250306353A1
Physics

HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING IN BONDED SAMPLE METROLOGY USING OBLIQUE ILLUMINATION

#7 | 2025-09-11 ✅ Patent 12,510,831 granted on 2025-12-30
US20250284205A1
Physics

ROBUST AND ACCURATE OVERLAY TARGET DESIGN FOR CMP

#8 | 2025-09-04 ✅ Patent 12,484,316 granted on 2025-11-25
US20250280611A1
Electricity

CVD BORON UNIFORMITY OVERCOMING LOADING EFFECTS

#9 | 2025-08-21 ✅ Patent 12,535,431 granted on 2026-01-27
US20250264414A1
Physics

SAMPLE INSPECTION WITH MULTIPLE MEASUREMENT MODES

#10 | 2025-07-31 ✅ Patent 12,487,533 granted on 2025-12-02
US20250244682A1
Physics

AMPLITUDE ASYMMETRY MEASUREMENTS IN OVERLAY METROLOGY

#11 | 2025-07-15 ✅ Patent 12,360,062 granted on 2025-07-15
US17828461
Physics

Methods and systems for regularizing the optimization of application specific semiconductor measurement system parameter settings

#12 | 2025-06-12 ✅ Patent 12,373,936 granted on 2025-07-29
US20250191170A1
Physics

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVERLAY METROLOGY USING A PHASE MASK

#13 | 2025-05-22 ✅ Patent 12,529,954 granted on 2026-01-20
US20250164895A1
Physics

In-Situ In-Band and Out-of-Band Spectral Measurement for EUV Tools

#14 | 2025-05-15
US20250157850A1
Electricity

STAGE MOTION PROFILE SYSTEM AND METHOD

#15 | 2025-05-08 ✅ Patent 12,480,893 granted on 2025-11-25
US20250146961A1
Physics

OPTICAL AND X-RAY METROLOGY METHODS FOR PATTERNED SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES WITH RANDOMNESS

#16 | 2025-05-01 ✅ Patent 12,610,640 granted on 2026-04-21
US20250142992A1
Electricity

BACK-ILLUMINATED SENSOR AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME

#17 | 2025-05-01
US20250138435A1
Physics

MASSIVE MEASUREMENT SAMPLING USING MULTIPLE CHUCKS AND OPTICAL COLUMNS

#18 | 2025-05-01 ✅ Patent 12,571,724 granted on 2026-03-10
US20250137920A1
Physics

SINGLE WAFER ORIENTATION TOOL-INDUCED SHIFT CLEANING

#19 | 2025-04-17
US20250123213A1
Physics

MONITORING OF HF IN BUFFERED HYDROFLUORIC ACID (BHF)

#20 | 2025-04-03 ✅ Patent 12,411,420 granted on 2025-09-09
US20250110412A1
Physics

SMALL IN-DIE TARGET DESIGN FOR OVERLAY MEASUREMENT

#21 | 2025-03-27 ✅ Patent 12,520,413 granted on 2026-01-06
US20250106973A1
Electricity

SAPPHIRE LAMP FOR LASER SUSTAINED PLASMA BROADBAND LIGHT SOURCE

#22 | 2025-03-27 ✅ Patent 12,561,791 granted on 2026-02-24
US20250104216A1
Physics

METHOD TO CALIBRATE, PREDICT, AND CONTROL STOCHASTIC DEFECTS IN EUV LITHOGRAPHY

#23 | 2025-03-27 ✅ Patent 12,579,631 granted on 2026-03-17
US20250104215A1
Physics

METHOD TO CALIBRATE, PREDICT, AND CONTROL STOCHASTIC DEFECTS IN EUV LITHOGRAPHY

#24 | 2025-03-27 ✅ Patent 12,561,790 granted on 2026-02-24
US20250104214A1
Physics

METHOD TO CALIBRATE, PREDICT, AND CONTROL STOCHASTIC DEFECTS IN EUV LITHOGRAPHY

#25 | 2025-03-20 ✅ Patent 12,450,857 granted on 2025-10-21
US20250095317A1
Physics

AUTOMATIC METHOD TO FIND EXTENT OF REPEATING GEOMETRY IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT

#26 | 2025-03-20 ✅ Patent 12,601,979 granted on 2026-04-14
US20250093786A1
Physics

MULTI-COLUMN LARGE FIELD OF VIEW IMAGING PLATFORM

#27 | 2025-03-13 ✅ Patent 12,449,386 granted on 2025-10-21
US20250085241A1
Physics

Forward Library Based Seeding For Efficient X-Ray Scatterometry Measurements

#28 | 2025-03-06 ✅ Patent 12,560,548 granted on 2026-02-24
US20250076208A1
Physics

SPECTRAL ANGULAR METROLOGY

#29 | 2025-02-27 ✅ Patent 12,648,243 granted on 2026-06-02
US20250072139A1
Electricity

BIASING AND READOUT METHODS FOR HIGH-SPEED RESISTIVE GATE SENSOR

#30 | 2025-02-27 ✅ Patent 12,659,580 granted on 2026-06-16
US20250071419A1
Electricity

RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS MODE SELECTION IN INSPECTION AND OTHER TOOLS

#31 | 2025-02-27 ✅ Patent 12,444,155 granted on 2025-10-14
US20250069354A1
Physics

ROBUST IMAGE-TO-DESIGN ALIGNMENT FOR DRAM

#32 | 2025-02-27 ✅ Patent 12,444,064 granted on 2025-10-14
US20250069242A1
Physics

QUANTITATIVE LINEAR INDEPENDENT VECTOR BASED METHOD (QLIVBM) FOR IMAGE ALIGNMENT

#33 | 2025-02-20 ✅ Patent 12,444,174 granted on 2025-10-14
US20250061692A1
Physics

RARE EVENT TRAINING DATA SETS FOR ROBUST TRAINING OF SEMICONDUCTOR YIELD RELATED COMPONENTS

#34 | 2025-01-16 ✅ Patent 12,480,890 granted on 2025-11-25
US20250020598A1
Physics

DEEP LEARNING BASED MODE SELECTION FOR INSPECTION

#35 | 2025-01-09 ✅ Patent 12,538,408 granted on 2026-01-27
US20250016905A1
Electricity

LASER-SUSTAINED PLASMA GENERATION IN SUPERSONIC GAS JETS

#36 | 2025-01-02 ✅ Patent 12,380,367 granted on 2025-08-05
US20250005435A1
Physics

METROLOGY IN THE PRESENCE OF CMOS UNDER ARRAY (CUA) STRUCTURES UTILIZING MACHINE LEARNING AND PHYSICAL MODELING

#37 | 2025-01-02 ✅ Patent 12,372,882 granted on 2025-07-29
US20250004384A1
Physics

METROLOGY IN THE PRESENCE OF CMOS UNDER ARRAY (CUA) STRUCTURES UTILIZING AN EFFECTIVE MEDIUM MODEL WITH CLASSIFICATION OF CUA STRUCTURES

#38 | 2025-01-02 ✅ Patent 12,510,590 granted on 2025-12-30
US20250004047A1
Physics

METROLOGY IN THE PRESENCE OF CMOS UNDER ARRAY (CUA) STRUCTURES UTILIZING AN EFFECTIVE MEDIUM MODEL WITH PHYSICAL MODELING

#39 | 2024-12-26 ✅ Patent 12,399,435 granted on 2025-08-26
US20240427252A1
Physics

GRATING-OVER-GRATING OVERLAY MEASUREMENT WITH PARALLEL COLOR PER LAYER

#40 | 2024-12-19 ✅ Patent 12,449,352 granted on 2025-10-21
US20240418635A1
Physics

Optics For Measurement Of Thick Films And High Aspect Ratio Structures

#41 | 2024-12-12 ✅ Patent 12,640,337 granted on 2026-05-26
US20240412944A1
Electricity

AUTOFOCUS METHOD FOR SINGLE BEAM AND MULTI-BEAM SYSTEMS

#42 | 2024-12-05 ✅ Patent 12,504,697 granted on 2025-12-23
US20240402615A1
Physics

SINGLE GRAB PUPIL LANDSCAPE VIA BROADBAND ILLUMINATION

#43 | 2024-11-26 ✅ Patent 12,152,316 granted on 2024-11-26
US17532685
Chemistry; metallurgy

Passivation of nonlinear optical crystals

#44 | 2024-11-14 ✅ Patent 12,379,672 granted on 2025-08-05
US20240377758A1
Physics

METROLOGY OF NANOSHEET SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND PROFILE

#45 | 2024-10-31 ✅ Patent 12,387,310 granted on 2025-08-12
US20240362765A1
Physics

WAFER SIGNATURE LOCAL MAXIMA VIA CLUSTERING FOR METROLOGY GUIDED INSPECTION

#46 | 2024-10-24 ✅ Patent 12,379,668 granted on 2025-08-05
US20240353760A1
Physics

Methods And Systems For Measurement Of Semiconductor Structures With Multi-Pass Statistical Optimization

#47 | 2024-10-24 ✅ Patent 12,656,246 granted on 2026-06-16
US20240353318A1
Physics

METHODS OF IMAGING PATH POLARIZATION CONTROL FOR DEFECT DETECTION SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENT

#48 | 2024-10-24 ✅ Patent 12,529,552 granted on 2026-01-20
US20240353219A1
Physics

ANGULAR AVERAGING CALIBRATION ON BARE WAFER METROLOGY TOOLS FOR ESFQR MATCHING IMPROVEMENT

#49 | 2024-10-10 ✅ Patent 12,448,963 granted on 2025-10-21
US20240337259A1
Mechanical engineering

ASYMMETRIC GAS BEARING BUSHING FOR THERMO-PUMP

#50 | 2024-10-03 ✅ Patent 12,585,200 granted on 2026-03-24
US20240329543A1
Physics

IMAGING OVERLAY WITH MUTUALLY COHERENT OBLIQUE ILLUMINATION

#51 | 2024-09-19
US20240313032A1
Electricity

Back-Illuminated Sensor With Boron Layer Deposited Using Plasma Atomic Layer Deposition

#52 | 2024-09-12 ✅ Patent 12,198,921 granted on 2025-01-14
US20240304435A1
Electricity

Laser-sustained plasma light source with tapered window

#53 | 2024-08-29 ✅ Patent 12,327,741 granted on 2025-06-10
US20240290643A1
Electricity

OSCILLATING SECONDARY STAGE FOR FRAME-MODE OVERLAY METROLOGY

#54 | 2024-08-22 ✅ Patent 12,235,588 granted on 2025-02-25
US20240280914A1
Physics

Scanning overlay metrology with high signal to noise ratio

#55 | 2024-08-22 ✅ Patent 12,656,621 granted on 2026-06-16
US20240280828A1
Physics

RECTANGULAR CUBOID, NON-POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTER THAT AVOIDS INTERFERENCE FRINGES FROM SURFACE REFLECTIONS

#56 | 2024-08-15 ✅ Patent 12,452,987 granted on 2025-10-21
US20240274430A1
Electricity

HIGH-POWER COMPACT VUV LASER-SUSTAINED PLASMA LIGHT SOURCE

#57 | 2024-08-01 ✅ Patent 12,578,284 granted on 2026-03-17
US20240255448A1
Physics

DETECTING DEFECTS IN ARRAY REGIONS ON SPECIMENS

#58 | 2024-07-11 ✅ Patent 12,578,285 granted on 2026-03-17
US20240230555A9
Physics

GAS FLOW CONFIGURATIONS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTIONS

#59 | 2024-07-04 ✅ Patent 12,664,641 granted on 2026-06-23
US20240221149A1
Physics

INTERFACE-BASED DEFECT INSPECTION USING SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION

#60 | 2024-06-27 ✅ Patent 12,105,433 granted on 2024-10-01
US20240210841A9
Physics

IMAGING OVERLAY TARGETS USING MOIRÉ ELEMENTS AND ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY ARRANGEMENTS

#61 | 2024-06-20 ✅ Patent 12,523,968 granted on 2026-01-13
US20240201637A1
Physics

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY FOR CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEMS

#62 | 2024-06-20 ✅ Patent 12,572,066 granted on 2026-03-10
US20240201581A1
Physics

EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET SOURCE TEMPERATURE MONITORING USING CONFOCAL SENSOR

#63 | 2024-06-13 ✅ Patent 12,592,357 granted on 2026-03-31
US20240194440A1
Electricity

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-BEAM ELECTRON MICROSCOPY USING A DETECTOR ARRAY

#64 | 2024-06-06 ✅ Patent 12,405,225 granted on 2025-09-02
US20240183790A1
Physics

LIFTER ASSEMBLY WITH BELLOWS FOR OPTICAL INSPECTION SYSTEM

#65 | 2024-05-23 ✅ Patent 12,092,966 granted on 2024-09-17
US20240168391A1
Physics

Device feature specific edge placement error (EPE)

#66 | 2024-05-16 ✅ Patent 12,591,963 granted on 2026-03-31
US20240161270A1
Physics

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING DEFECT DETECTION IN OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEMS USING A DIGITAL FILTER

#67 | 2024-05-16 ✅ Patent 12,066,322 granted on 2024-08-20
US20240159585A1
Physics

Single grab overlay measurement of tall targets

#68 | 2024-05-09 ✅ Patent 12,068,129 granted on 2024-08-20
US20240153737A1
Electricity

Tilt-column multi-beam electron microscopy system and method

#69 | 2024-05-09 ✅ Patent 12,656,393 granted on 2026-06-16
US20240151770A1
Physics

Methods And Systems For Measurement Of Semiconductor Structures Based On Derivative Measurement Signals

#70 | 2024-05-02 ✅ Patent 12,535,744 granted on 2026-01-27
US20240142883A1
Physics

Overlay Estimation Based on Optical Inspection and Machine Learning

#71 | 2024-04-11 ✅ Patent 12,067,745 granted on 2024-08-20
US20240119626A1
Physics

Image pre-processing for overlay metrology using decomposition techniques

#72 | 2024-04-11 ✅ Patent 12,105,414 granted on 2024-10-01
US20240118606A1
Physics

Targets for diffraction-based overlay error metrology

#73 | 2024-04-04 ✅ Patent 12,567,560 granted on 2026-03-03
US20240112884A1
Electricity

DISTORTION REDUCTION IN A MULTI-BEAM IMAGING SYSTEM

#74 | 2024-04-04
US20240110549A1
Mechanical engineering

FRICTIONLESS DESIGN OF HIGH-PRESSURE RECIRCULATION THERMO-PUMP

#75 | 2024-03-28
US20240105440A1
Electricity

PULSE-ASSISTED LASER-SUSTAINED PLASMA IN FLOWING HIGH-PRESSURE LIQUIDS

#76 | 2024-03-28 ✅ Patent 11,955,308 granted on 2024-04-09
US20240105414A1
Electricity

Water cooled, air bearing based rotating anode x-ray illumination source

#77 | 2024-03-28 ✅ Patent 12,546,727 granted on 2026-02-10
US20240102941A1
Physics

Calibration Of Parametric Measurement Models Based On In-Line Wafer Measurement Data

#78 | 2024-03-21 ✅ Patent 12,165,831 granted on 2024-12-10
US20240096586A1
Electricity

Method and system of image-forming multi-electron beams

#79 | 2024-03-21 ✅ Patent 12,197,137 granted on 2025-01-14
US20240094642A1
Physics

System and method for determining post bonding overlay

#80 | 2024-03-14 ✅ Patent 12,418,972 granted on 2025-09-16
US20240090110A1
Electricity

Confocal Chromatic Metrology for EUV Source Condition Monitoring

#81 | 2024-03-07 ✅ Patent 12,322,568 granted on 2025-06-03
US20240079203A1
Electricity

Auto-focus sensor implementation for multi-column microscopes

#82 | 2024-02-29 ✅ Patent 12,372,486 granted on 2025-07-29
US20240068967A1
Physics

NOISE DIAGNOSTICS FOR AN ELECTRON BEAM INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH SWATHING

#83 | 2024-02-22
US20240063248A1
Electricity

Back-Illuminated Sensor And A Method Of Manufacturing A Sensor Using A Silicon On Insulator Wafer

#84 | 2024-02-22 ✅ Patent 11,966,156 granted on 2024-04-23
US20240061327A1
Physics

Lithography mask repair by simulation of photoresist thickness evolution

#85 | 2024-02-15 ✅ Patent 12,482,091 granted on 2025-11-25
US20240054632A1
Physics

DETECTING DEFECTS ON SPECIMENS

#86 | 2024-02-15 ✅ Patent 12,164,277 granted on 2024-12-10
US20240053721A1
Physics

System and method for mitigating overlay distortion patterns caused by a wafer bonding tool

#87 | 2024-02-15 ✅ Patent 12,253,805 granted on 2025-03-18
US20240053687A1
Physics

Scatterometry overlay metrology with orthogonal fine-pitch segmentation

#88 | 2024-02-01 ✅ Patent 12,372,345 granted on 2025-07-29
US20240035810A1
Physics

3D PROFILOMETRY WITH A LINNIK INTERFEROMETER

#89 | 2024-01-25 ✅ Patent 12,379,669 granted on 2025-08-05
US20240027919A1
Physics

MASSIVE OVERLAY METROLOGY SAMPLING WITH MULTIPLE MEASUREMENT COLUMNS

#90 | 2024-01-18 ✅ Patent 11,921,825 granted on 2024-03-05
US20240020353A1
Physics

System and method for determining target feature focus in image-based overlay metrology

#91 | 2024-01-02 ✅ Patent 11,861,824 granted on 2024-01-02
US18101369
Physics

Reference image grouping in overlay metrology

#92 | 2023-12-28 ✅ Patent 12,444,628 granted on 2025-10-14
US20230420278A1
Electricity

Image Modeling-Assisted Contour Extraction

#93 | 2023-12-26 ✅ Patent 11,852,590 granted on 2023-12-26
US16552107
Physics

Systems and methods for metrology with layer-specific illumination spectra

#94 | 2023-12-21 ✅ Patent 12,298,254 granted on 2025-05-13
US20230408422A1
Physics

System and method for reducing sample noise using selective markers

#95 | 2023-12-14 ✅ Patent 12,133,318 granted on 2024-10-29
US20230403778A1
Electricity

Rotating target for extreme ultraviolet source with liquid metal

#96 | 2023-12-14 ✅ Patent 12,001,148 granted on 2024-06-04
US20230400780A1
Physics

Enhancing performance of overlay metrology

#97 | 2023-12-07 ✅ Patent 12,283,453 granted on 2025-04-22
US20230395349A1
Electricity

Creating multiple electron beams with a photocathode film

#98 | 2023-11-30 ✅ Patent 12,078,601 granted on 2024-09-03
US20230384237A1
Physics

Universal metrology model

#99 | 2023-11-09 ✅ Patent 11,899,375 granted on 2024-02-13
US20230359129A1
Physics

Massive overlay metrology sampling with multiple measurement columns

#100 | 2023-11-02 ✅ Patent 12,614,256 granted on 2026-04-28
US20230351553A1
Physics

SHOT NOISE REDUCTION USING FRAME AVERAGING

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