INSPECTION SYSTEM AND APPARATUS

Patent №

US 7,103,482

Granted

2006-09-05

Filed 2004

Owner

QCEPT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10710836

A method and system for identifying a defect or contamination on a surface of a material. The method and system involves providing a material, such as a semiconductor wafer, using a non-vibrating contact potential difference sensor to scan the wafer, generate contact potential difference data and processing that data to identify a pattern characteristic of the defect or contamination.

PlanningG01N 27/002G01N 33/0095

AI classification

Planning0.55
AI hardware0.03
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00
Vision0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

QCEPT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 153900539

Assignors

STEELE, M. BRANDON, HAWTHORNE, JEFFREY ALAN, KIM, CHUNHO, SOWELL, DAVID C.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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