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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:
Feb. 02, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Globalfoundries, Inc., Grand Cayman, KY;

Inventors:

Chinmay Oza, Mechanicville, NY (US);

William John Fosnight, Saratoga Springs, NY (US);

Assignee:

GLOBALFOUNDRIES, INC., Grand Cayman, KY;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 19/00 (2011.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/41865 (2013.01); G05B 2219/32325 (2013.01); G05B 2219/32328 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are methods and systems for semiconductor fabrication. In one embodiment, a method of semiconductor fabrication includes performing a process on substrates with an equipment unit to form processed substrates, communicating processing data from the equipment unit to a local scheduler and a universal scheduler, determining a priority of the processed substrates, and scheduling removal of processed substrates from the equipment unit and delivery of unprocessed substrates to the equipment unit by the local scheduler based on the processing data and the priority of the processed substrates.


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