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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/116 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/116 ;
Abstract
A method of reviewing defects on a substrate. The method includes inputting information of defects on a substrate detected by a detection apparatus, identifying cluster of defects detected on the substrate by using the inputted information, selecting defects to be reviewed from the cluster identified, reviewing the selected defects, and classifying the reviewed defects.