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Christoph Schwan — 23 Patents

AMD: 16 patents #734 of 9,280Top 8%
Globalfoundries: 6 patents #578 of 4,424Top 15%
Gebhardshain, DE: #1 of 2 inventorsTop 50%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Christoph Schwan has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in August 2014. Christoph Schwan ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Christoph Schwan in Gebhardshain, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2014Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2006.peak 42003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 4 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 3 patents20092010: 4 patents2012: 3 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 1 patents2014

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8806824 Wall construction and component for the same 2014-08-19
8617940 SOI device with a buried insulating material having increased etch resistivity Andreas Kurz, Roman Boschke, John Morgan 2013-12-31 $2,797,000
8609485 Methods of forming efuse devices Andreas Kurz, Andy Wei 2013-12-17 $1,491,000
8564089 Electronic fuse structure formed using a metal gate electrode material stack configuration Andreas Kurz, Jan Hoentschel 2013-10-22 $1,818,000
8193066 Semiconductor device comprising a silicon/germanium resistor Andreas Kurz, Roman Boschke, John Morgan 2012-06-05 $2,975,000
8138571 Semiconductor device comprising isolation trenches inducing different types of strain Joe Bloomquist, Peter Javorka, Manfred Horstmann, Sven Beyer, Markus Forsberg +2 more 2012-03-20 $9,207,000
8110487 Method of creating a strained channel region in a transistor by deep implantation of strain-inducing species below the channel region Uwe Griebenow, Kai Frohberg, Kerstin Ruttloff 2012-02-07 $12,466,000
7838354 Method for patterning contact etch stop layers by using a planarization process Kai Frohberg, Sven Mueller 2010-11-23 $5,148,000
7838359 Technique for forming contact insulation layers and silicide regions with different characteristics Kai Frohberg, Matthias Lehr 2010-11-23 $5,148,000
7713815 Semiconductor device including a vertical decoupling capacitor Matthias Lehr, Kai Frohberg 2010-05-11 $11,612,000
7659170 Method of increasing transistor drive current by recessing an isolation trench Manfred Horstmann, Martin Gerhardt, Markus Forseberg 2010-02-09 $15,199,000
7563731 Field effect transistor having a stressed dielectric layer based on an enhanced device topography Manfred Horstmann, Kai Frohberg, Rolf Stephan 2009-07-21 $9,005,000
7556996 Field effect transistor comprising a stressed channel region and method of forming the same Joe Bloomquist, Kai Frohberg, Manfred Horstmann 2009-07-07 $14,531,000
7547610 Method of making a semiconductor device comprising isolation trenches inducing different types of strain Joe Bloomquist, Peter Javorka, Manfred Horstmann, Sven Beyer, Markus Forsberg +2 more 2009-06-16 $16,459,000
7338872 Method of depositing a layer of a material on a substrate Thomas Feudel, Thorsten Kammler 2008-03-04 $9,869,000
7192881 Method of forming sidewall spacer elements for a circuit element by increasing an etch selectivity Thorsten Kammler, Karsten Wieczorek 2007-03-20 $9,786,000
7098140 Method of compensating for etch rate non-uniformities by ion implantation Matthias Schaller, Carsten Hartig 2006-08-29 $13,087,000
7064071 Method of forming a conformal spacer adjacent to a gate electrode structure 2006-06-20 $7,818,000
7005358 Technique for forming recessed sidewall spacers for a polysilicon line Thorsten Kammler, Katja Huy 2006-02-28 $11,043,000
7005305 Signal layer for generating characteristic optical plasma emissions Gunter Grasshoff, Matthias Schaller 2006-02-28 $11,043,000
6969676 Method of adjusting etch selectivity by adapting aspect ratios in a multi-level etch process Gunter Grasshoff, Volker Grimm 2005-11-29 $10,680,000
6696334 Method for formation of a differential offset spacer Kay Hellig, Srikanteswara Dakshina-Murthy 2004-02-24 $4,069,000
6579801 Method for enhancing shallow trench top corner rounding using endpoint control of nitride layer etch process with appropriate etch front Srikanteswara Dakshina-Murthy, Jeffrey C. Haines 2003-06-17 $2,827,000