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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:
Jan. 05, 2016
Filed:
May. 08, 2012
Applicants:
Mark T Lam, Singapore, SG;
Ooi T Ong, Singapore, SG;
Inventors:
Mark T Lam, Singapore, SG;
Ooi T Ong, Singapore, SG;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 15/02 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4187 (2013.01); G05B 19/41875 (2013.01); G05B 2219/32324 (2013.01); G05B 2219/34355 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45031 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and software for improving the product quality of a production line having multiple production steps, at least some of which employ multiple individual tools, including producing product lots using different combinations of tools, setting a quality benchmark for the resulting product lots, identifying product lots that meet the quality benchmark, identifying the tools used to produce the identified quality product lots, and producing additional product lots using at least substantially the identified quality tools.