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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 03, 2021
Applicant:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mauro Cimino, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Arkaprava Dan, San Jose, CA (US);

Sanjeev Baluja, Campbell, CA (US);

Assignee:

Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 13/02 (2006.01); H01L 21/67 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 13/025 (2013.01); G05B 13/022 (2013.01); H01L 21/67248 (2013.01); H01L 21/67276 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments disclosed herein include a method for auto-tuning a system. In an embodiment, the method comprises determining if the system is in a steady state. Thereafter, the method includes exciting the system. In an embodiment, the method comprises storing process feedback measurements from the excited system to provide a set of stored data. In an embodiment, the set of stored data is a subset of all available data generated by the excited system. In an embodiment, the method further comprises determining when the excited system returns to the steady state, and tuning the system using the set of stored data.


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