Patent 7349752 was granted and assigned to Integrated Device Technology on March, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Methods for determining tolerances are disclosed that can be used for determining whether a lot of semiconductor wafers needs to be reworked. Overlay tolerance, critical dimension tolerance and a dynamic line edge placement tolerance are determined using error measurements that are taken from sample wafers in the lot, giving tolerances that reflect the error state of that particular lot of semiconductor wafers.