Milpitas, California
United States
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2026-05-21
539
2026-05-19
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KLA Corporation based in Milpitas, US has been assigned the rights to these inventions. The list includes both Pending Applications and Patent Grants:
High Power 193 Nanometer Continuous-Wave Laser Light
#2 | 2026-04-30 ✅ Patent 12,635,472 granted on 2026-05-19CLEANROOM COMPATIBLE ROBOTIC END EFFECTOR EXCHANGE SYSTEM
#3 | 2026-02-26Catoptric System Using Scheimpflug Optics
#4 | 2025-12-04SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING SUPERCRITICAL CO2 DRYING
#5 | 2025-10-09ULTRA-HIGH SENSITIVITY HYBRID INSPECTION WITH FULL WAFER COVERAGE CAPABILITY
#6 | 2025-10-02 ✅ Patent 12,529,878 granted on 2026-01-20HIGH CONTRAST IMAGING IN BONDED SAMPLE METROLOGY USING OBLIQUE ILLUMINATION
#7 | 2025-09-11 ✅ Patent 12,510,831 granted on 2025-12-30ROBUST AND ACCURATE OVERLAY TARGET DESIGN FOR CMP
#8 | 2025-09-04 ✅ Patent 12,484,316 granted on 2025-11-25CVD BORON UNIFORMITY OVERCOMING LOADING EFFECTS
#9 | 2025-08-21 ✅ Patent 12,535,431 granted on 2026-01-27SAMPLE INSPECTION WITH MULTIPLE MEASUREMENT MODES
#10 | 2025-07-31 ✅ Patent 12,487,533 granted on 2025-12-02AMPLITUDE ASYMMETRY MEASUREMENTS IN OVERLAY METROLOGY
#11 | 2025-07-15 ✅ Patent 12,360,062 granted on 2025-07-15Methods and systems for regularizing the optimization of application specific semiconductor measurement system parameter settings
#12 | 2025-06-12 ✅ Patent 12,373,936 granted on 2025-07-29SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVERLAY METROLOGY USING A PHASE MASK
#13 | 2025-05-22 ✅ Patent 12,529,954 granted on 2026-01-20In-Situ In-Band and Out-of-Band Spectral Measurement for EUV Tools
#14 | 2025-05-15STAGE MOTION PROFILE SYSTEM AND METHOD
#15 | 2025-05-08 ✅ Patent 12,480,893 granted on 2025-11-25OPTICAL AND X-RAY METROLOGY METHODS FOR PATTERNED SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES WITH RANDOMNESS
#16 | 2025-05-01 ✅ Patent 12,610,640 granted on 2026-04-21BACK-ILLUMINATED SENSOR AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME
#17 | 2025-05-01MASSIVE MEASUREMENT SAMPLING USING MULTIPLE CHUCKS AND OPTICAL COLUMNS
#18 | 2025-05-01 ✅ Patent 12,571,724 granted on 2026-03-10SINGLE WAFER ORIENTATION TOOL-INDUCED SHIFT CLEANING
#19 | 2025-04-17MONITORING OF HF IN BUFFERED HYDROFLUORIC ACID (BHF)
#20 | 2025-04-03 ✅ Patent 12,411,420 granted on 2025-09-09SMALL IN-DIE TARGET DESIGN FOR OVERLAY MEASUREMENT
#21 | 2025-03-27 ✅ Patent 12,520,413 granted on 2026-01-06SAPPHIRE LAMP FOR LASER SUSTAINED PLASMA BROADBAND LIGHT SOURCE
#22 | 2025-03-27 ✅ Patent 12,561,791 granted on 2026-02-24METHOD TO CALIBRATE, PREDICT, AND CONTROL STOCHASTIC DEFECTS IN EUV LITHOGRAPHY
#23 | 2025-03-27 ✅ Patent 12,579,631 granted on 2026-03-17METHOD TO CALIBRATE, PREDICT, AND CONTROL STOCHASTIC DEFECTS IN EUV LITHOGRAPHY
#24 | 2025-03-27 ✅ Patent 12,561,790 granted on 2026-02-24METHOD TO CALIBRATE, PREDICT, AND CONTROL STOCHASTIC DEFECTS IN EUV LITHOGRAPHY
#25 | 2025-03-20 ✅ Patent 12,450,857 granted on 2025-10-21AUTOMATIC METHOD TO FIND EXTENT OF REPEATING GEOMETRY IN AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT
#26 | 2025-03-20 ✅ Patent 12,601,979 granted on 2026-04-14MULTI-COLUMN LARGE FIELD OF VIEW IMAGING PLATFORM
#27 | 2025-03-13 ✅ Patent 12,449,386 granted on 2025-10-21Forward Library Based Seeding For Efficient X-Ray Scatterometry Measurements
#28 | 2025-03-06 ✅ Patent 12,560,548 granted on 2026-02-24SPECTRAL ANGULAR METROLOGY
#29 | 2025-02-27 ✅ Patent 12,648,243 granted on 2026-06-02BIASING AND READOUT METHODS FOR HIGH-SPEED RESISTIVE GATE SENSOR
#30 | 2025-02-27 ✅ Patent 12,659,580 granted on 2026-06-16RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTONOMOUS MODE SELECTION IN INSPECTION AND OTHER TOOLS
#31 | 2025-02-27 ✅ Patent 12,444,155 granted on 2025-10-14ROBUST IMAGE-TO-DESIGN ALIGNMENT FOR DRAM
#32 | 2025-02-27 ✅ Patent 12,444,064 granted on 2025-10-14QUANTITATIVE LINEAR INDEPENDENT VECTOR BASED METHOD (QLIVBM) FOR IMAGE ALIGNMENT
#33 | 2025-02-20 ✅ Patent 12,444,174 granted on 2025-10-14RARE EVENT TRAINING DATA SETS FOR ROBUST TRAINING OF SEMICONDUCTOR YIELD RELATED COMPONENTS
#34 | 2025-01-16 ✅ Patent 12,480,890 granted on 2025-11-25DEEP LEARNING BASED MODE SELECTION FOR INSPECTION
#35 | 2025-01-09 ✅ Patent 12,538,408 granted on 2026-01-27LASER-SUSTAINED PLASMA GENERATION IN SUPERSONIC GAS JETS
#36 | 2025-01-02 ✅ Patent 12,380,367 granted on 2025-08-05METROLOGY 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 2025-07-29METROLOGY 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 2025-12-30METROLOGY 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 2025-08-26GRATING-OVER-GRATING OVERLAY MEASUREMENT WITH PARALLEL COLOR PER LAYER
#40 | 2024-12-19 ✅ Patent 12,449,352 granted on 2025-10-21Optics For Measurement Of Thick Films And High Aspect Ratio Structures
#41 | 2024-12-12 ✅ Patent 12,640,337 granted on 2026-05-26AUTOFOCUS METHOD FOR SINGLE BEAM AND MULTI-BEAM SYSTEMS
#42 | 2024-12-05 ✅ Patent 12,504,697 granted on 2025-12-23SINGLE GRAB PUPIL LANDSCAPE VIA BROADBAND ILLUMINATION
#43 | 2024-11-26 ✅ Patent 12,152,316 granted on 2024-11-26Passivation of nonlinear optical crystals
#44 | 2024-11-14 ✅ Patent 12,379,672 granted on 2025-08-05METROLOGY OF NANOSHEET SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND PROFILE
#45 | 2024-10-31 ✅ Patent 12,387,310 granted on 2025-08-12WAFER SIGNATURE LOCAL MAXIMA VIA CLUSTERING FOR METROLOGY GUIDED INSPECTION
#46 | 2024-10-24 ✅ Patent 12,379,668 granted on 2025-08-05Methods And Systems For Measurement Of Semiconductor Structures With Multi-Pass Statistical Optimization
#47 | 2024-10-24 ✅ Patent 12,656,246 granted on 2026-06-16METHODS OF IMAGING PATH POLARIZATION CONTROL FOR DEFECT DETECTION SENSITIVITY ENHANCEMENT
#48 | 2024-10-24 ✅ Patent 12,529,552 granted on 2026-01-20ANGULAR AVERAGING CALIBRATION ON BARE WAFER METROLOGY TOOLS FOR ESFQR MATCHING IMPROVEMENT
#49 | 2024-10-10 ✅ Patent 12,448,963 granted on 2025-10-21ASYMMETRIC GAS BEARING BUSHING FOR THERMO-PUMP
#50 | 2024-10-03 ✅ Patent 12,585,200 granted on 2026-03-24IMAGING OVERLAY WITH MUTUALLY COHERENT OBLIQUE ILLUMINATION
#51 | 2024-09-19Back-Illuminated Sensor With Boron Layer Deposited Using Plasma Atomic Layer Deposition
#52 | 2024-09-12 ✅ Patent 12,198,921 granted on 2025-01-14Laser-sustained plasma light source with tapered window
#53 | 2024-08-29 ✅ Patent 12,327,741 granted on 2025-06-10OSCILLATING SECONDARY STAGE FOR FRAME-MODE OVERLAY METROLOGY
#54 | 2024-08-22 ✅ Patent 12,235,588 granted on 2025-02-25Scanning overlay metrology with high signal to noise ratio
#55 | 2024-08-22 ✅ Patent 12,656,621 granted on 2026-06-16RECTANGULAR CUBOID, NON-POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTER THAT AVOIDS INTERFERENCE FRINGES FROM SURFACE REFLECTIONS
#56 | 2024-08-15 ✅ Patent 12,452,987 granted on 2025-10-21HIGH-POWER COMPACT VUV LASER-SUSTAINED PLASMA LIGHT SOURCE
#57 | 2024-08-01 ✅ Patent 12,578,284 granted on 2026-03-17DETECTING DEFECTS IN ARRAY REGIONS ON SPECIMENS
#58 | 2024-07-11 ✅ Patent 12,578,285 granted on 2026-03-17GAS FLOW CONFIGURATIONS FOR SEMICONDUCTOR INSPECTIONS
#59 | 2024-07-04 ✅ Patent 12,664,641 granted on 2026-06-23INTERFACE-BASED DEFECT INSPECTION USING SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION
#60 | 2024-06-27 ✅ Patent 12,105,433 granted on 2024-10-01IMAGING OVERLAY TARGETS USING MOIRÉ ELEMENTS AND ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY ARRANGEMENTS
#61 | 2024-06-20 ✅ Patent 12,523,968 granted on 2026-01-13SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY FOR CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEMS
#62 | 2024-06-20 ✅ Patent 12,572,066 granted on 2026-03-10EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET SOURCE TEMPERATURE MONITORING USING CONFOCAL SENSOR
#63 | 2024-06-13 ✅ Patent 12,592,357 granted on 2026-03-31SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTI-BEAM ELECTRON MICROSCOPY USING A DETECTOR ARRAY
#64 | 2024-06-06 ✅ Patent 12,405,225 granted on 2025-09-02LIFTER ASSEMBLY WITH BELLOWS FOR OPTICAL INSPECTION SYSTEM
#65 | 2024-05-23 ✅ Patent 12,092,966 granted on 2024-09-17Device feature specific edge placement error (EPE)
#66 | 2024-05-16 ✅ Patent 12,591,963 granted on 2026-03-31SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCING DEFECT DETECTION IN OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEMS USING A DIGITAL FILTER
#67 | 2024-05-16 ✅ Patent 12,066,322 granted on 2024-08-20Single grab overlay measurement of tall targets
#68 | 2024-05-09 ✅ Patent 12,068,129 granted on 2024-08-20Tilt-column multi-beam electron microscopy system and method
#69 | 2024-05-09 ✅ Patent 12,656,393 granted on 2026-06-16Methods And Systems For Measurement Of Semiconductor Structures Based On Derivative Measurement Signals
#70 | 2024-05-02 ✅ Patent 12,535,744 granted on 2026-01-27Overlay Estimation Based on Optical Inspection and Machine Learning
#71 | 2024-04-11 ✅ Patent 12,067,745 granted on 2024-08-20Image pre-processing for overlay metrology using decomposition techniques
#72 | 2024-04-11 ✅ Patent 12,105,414 granted on 2024-10-01Targets for diffraction-based overlay error metrology
#73 | 2024-04-04 ✅ Patent 12,567,560 granted on 2026-03-03DISTORTION REDUCTION IN A MULTI-BEAM IMAGING SYSTEM
#74 | 2024-04-04FRICTIONLESS DESIGN OF HIGH-PRESSURE RECIRCULATION THERMO-PUMP
#75 | 2024-03-28PULSE-ASSISTED LASER-SUSTAINED PLASMA IN FLOWING HIGH-PRESSURE LIQUIDS
#76 | 2024-03-28 ✅ Patent 11,955,308 granted on 2024-04-09Water cooled, air bearing based rotating anode x-ray illumination source
#77 | 2024-03-28 ✅ Patent 12,546,727 granted on 2026-02-10Calibration Of Parametric Measurement Models Based On In-Line Wafer Measurement Data
#78 | 2024-03-21 ✅ Patent 12,165,831 granted on 2024-12-10Method and system of image-forming multi-electron beams
#79 | 2024-03-21 ✅ Patent 12,197,137 granted on 2025-01-14System and method for determining post bonding overlay
#80 | 2024-03-14 ✅ Patent 12,418,972 granted on 2025-09-16Confocal Chromatic Metrology for EUV Source Condition Monitoring
#81 | 2024-03-07 ✅ Patent 12,322,568 granted on 2025-06-03Auto-focus sensor implementation for multi-column microscopes
#82 | 2024-02-29 ✅ Patent 12,372,486 granted on 2025-07-29NOISE DIAGNOSTICS FOR AN ELECTRON BEAM INSPECTION SYSTEM WITH SWATHING
#83 | 2024-02-22Back-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 2024-04-23Lithography mask repair by simulation of photoresist thickness evolution
#85 | 2024-02-15 ✅ Patent 12,482,091 granted on 2025-11-25DETECTING DEFECTS ON SPECIMENS
#86 | 2024-02-15 ✅ Patent 12,164,277 granted on 2024-12-10System and method for mitigating overlay distortion patterns caused by a wafer bonding tool
#87 | 2024-02-15 ✅ Patent 12,253,805 granted on 2025-03-18Scatterometry overlay metrology with orthogonal fine-pitch segmentation
#88 | 2024-02-01 ✅ Patent 12,372,345 granted on 2025-07-293D PROFILOMETRY WITH A LINNIK INTERFEROMETER
#89 | 2024-01-25 ✅ Patent 12,379,669 granted on 2025-08-05MASSIVE OVERLAY METROLOGY SAMPLING WITH MULTIPLE MEASUREMENT COLUMNS
#90 | 2024-01-18 ✅ Patent 11,921,825 granted on 2024-03-05System and method for determining target feature focus in image-based overlay metrology
#91 | 2024-01-02 ✅ Patent 11,861,824 granted on 2024-01-02Reference image grouping in overlay metrology
#92 | 2023-12-28 ✅ Patent 12,444,628 granted on 2025-10-14Image Modeling-Assisted Contour Extraction
#93 | 2023-12-26 ✅ Patent 11,852,590 granted on 2023-12-26Systems and methods for metrology with layer-specific illumination spectra
#94 | 2023-12-21 ✅ Patent 12,298,254 granted on 2025-05-13System and method for reducing sample noise using selective markers
#95 | 2023-12-14 ✅ Patent 12,133,318 granted on 2024-10-29Rotating target for extreme ultraviolet source with liquid metal
#96 | 2023-12-14 ✅ Patent 12,001,148 granted on 2024-06-04Enhancing performance of overlay metrology
#97 | 2023-12-07 ✅ Patent 12,283,453 granted on 2025-04-22Creating multiple electron beams with a photocathode film
#98 | 2023-11-30 ✅ Patent 12,078,601 granted on 2024-09-03Universal metrology model
#99 | 2023-11-09 ✅ Patent 11,899,375 granted on 2024-02-13Massive overlay metrology sampling with multiple measurement columns
#100 | 2023-11-02 ✅ Patent 12,614,256 granted on 2026-04-28SHOT NOISE REDUCTION USING FRAME AVERAGING
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