Intellectual Property

900+ Filed Claims. 9 Technology Areas.

Comprehensive IP covering glass interposer impedance, hybrid bonding yield prediction, isolation synthesis, wafer control, and thermal intelligence for advanced heterogeneous integration.

description900+Filed Claims
hub9Technology Areas
scheduleJan 2026Priority Date
gavel141Independent Claims

Highest-Value Independent Claims

Top 10 Claims

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Overlay Metrology → Yield via Spatial Autocorrelation

Yield Prediction Engine

Bridges overlay registration measurements to hybrid bonding yield prediction via pairwise autocorrelation and spatial defect correlation length.

Relevant to: KLA, ASML

2

End-to-End GDS-to-Yield Pipeline for Hybrid Bonding

Yield Prediction Engine

Seven-stage physics chain from CMP recess to contact mechanics to void nucleation to thermal stress to Monte Carlo yield, with mandatory data contracts between stages.

Relevant to: Corning, KLA, TSMC

3

Multiconductor BEM for Through-Glass Via Impedance

Glass Interposer PDK

Boundary-element multiconductor capacitance extraction for TGV arrays, capturing discrete ground-via placement effects that coaxial formulas cannot.

Relevant to: Corning, Intel, Cadence, Synopsys

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Bayesian Sequential Calibration of Yield Model Parameters

Yield Prediction Engine

Conjugate Normal-Normal sequential updates over correlation length, CMP recess variance, and anneal stress, narrowing confidence intervals by 90% within 10 measurements.

Relevant to: KLA, Corning

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Closed-Loop Adjoint Workflow for Isolation Synthesis

Isolation Synthesis Engine

Parameterizes isolation corridors as a 2D permittivity field, runs forward FDTD with adjoint gradient computation, and exports DRC-verified GDSII in a single closed loop.

Relevant to: Cadence, Synopsys, Qualcomm, Intel

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Chirped LFI Dielectric Shield

RF & Photonics Suite

Chirped TiO2/SiO2 dielectric stack providing broadband laser fault injection rejection above 40 dB at 532/808/1064 nm simultaneously with visible transmittance above 90%.

Relevant to: Defense, Qualcomm, Apple

7

Multi-Dk Inverse Impedance Design

Glass Interposer PDK

Analytical-seed plus BEM-verify iterative search for target characteristic impedance across glass substrates of varying dielectric constant.

Relevant to: Corning, Intel, Cadence

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Differentiable Yield-Aware Inverse Layout

Yield Prediction Engine

Fourier Neural Operator backpropagation through density, density gradient, and CMP recess channels to optimize layout density patterns for predicted yield.

Relevant to: KLA, TSMC

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Spectral FFT Contact with Smoothed Dugdale CZM

Yield Prediction Engine

Fourier-space elastic contact combined with smoothed Dugdale cohesive zone optimization to compute wafer bonding gap and void distribution.

Relevant to: Infrastructure for hybrid bonding yield prediction

10

Zernike-Decomposed Iterative Learning Control

Wafer Control Suite

Noll-normalized Zernike mode decomposition with order-dependent gain scheduling for iterative wafer flatness control in lithography.

Relevant to: ASML, Tokyo Electron

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Design-Around Evidence

Each claim is backed by quantitative evidence that competitors cannot trivially replicate or circumvent the protected methods.

Technology AreaTestResultWhat It Proves
Wafer Control SuiteILC vs 5 classical controllers (PID, LQR, MPC, SM, Fixed)982/1000 winsControl law non-trivially superior across 5 materials, 315 FEM cases
Glass Interposer PDKBEM vs coaxial analytical across 41,700 TGV designs0/41,700 designs escape BEMCoaxial formula is 55–225% wrong on glass TGV geometries
Isolation Synthesis EngineAdjoint gradient vs finite-difference validationr = 1.0 correlationAdjoint gradient computation correct to numerical precision across 5 synthesis families
Yield Prediction EngineOverlay autocorrelation → yield calibration96% CI reduction in ≤10 wafersCorrelation length converges from 294µm to 12.4µm with no competing published method
Glass Interposer PDKBEM vs 5 IEEE published measurements3.57% MAEMatches Eagle XG, AF32, Borosilicate, EN-A1, and Quartz within measurement uncertainty

Portfolio Coverage

9 Technology Areas

Each area combines production solvers, validated benchmarks, and independent claims filed with a January–February 2026 priority date.

Wafer Control Suite

Iterative learning control, wafer flatness, Zernike decomposition

Package Mechanics Engine

Kirchhoff-von Karman FEM, panel warpage, structural coupling

Thermal Intelligence Engine

Binary mixture thermal, Rohsenow boiling, 2D resolved thermal

RF & Photonics Suite

TMM wideband isolation, chirped LFI shields, photonic thermal

Critical Materials Engine

PFAS remediation cascades, rare-earth selectivity

Battery Physics Engine

Gyroid tortuosity, Monroe-Newman CCD, dendrite prediction

Glass Interposer PDK

BEM multiconductor impedance, 1.6M-row database, 15+ glass types

Isolation Synthesis Engine

Adjoint topology optimization, GDSII export, DRC integration

Yield Prediction Engine

GDS-to-yield pipeline, Bayesian calibration, KLA Archer integration

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