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Craig S. Sander — 20 Patents

AMD: 20 patents #551 of 9,280Top 6%
Cupertino, CA: #841 of 6,989 inventorsTop 15%
California: #29,208 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Craig S. Sander has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in April 2006. Craig S. Sander ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Craig S. Sander in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1987 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1990.peak 41987: 2 patents19871988: 1 patents19881989: 1 patents19891990: 4 patents19901992: 1 patents19921998: 2 patents19981999: 2 patents19992000: 4 patents20002001: 2 patents20012006: 1 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7026691 Minimizing transistor size in integrated circuits Rich Klein, Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Christoper A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee +2 more 2006-04-11 $9,016,000
6287953 Minimizing transistor size in integrated circuits Rich Klein, Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Christoper A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee +2 more 2001-09-11
6274419 Trench isolation of field effect transistors Farrokh Omid-Zohoor, Andre Stolmeijer, Yowjuang W. Liu 2001-08-14 $3,163,000
6146954 Minimizing transistor size in integrated circuits Richard K. Klein, Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Christopher A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee +2 more 2000-11-14 $4,365,000
6051881 Forming local interconnects in integrated circuits Richard K. Klein, Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Christopher A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee +2 more 2000-04-18 $8,077,000
6048652 Backside polish EUV mask and method of manufacture Khanh B. Nguyen 2000-04-11 $13,721,000
6046088 Method for self-aligning polysilicon gates with field isolation and the resultant structure Richard K. Klein, Asim A. Selcuk, Nicholas J. Kepler, Christopher A. Spence, Raymond T. Lee +2 more 2000-04-04 $6,962,000
5963816 Method for making shallow trench marks Larry Wang, Anna M. Minvielle 1999-10-05 $1,787,000
5889697 Memory cell for storing at least three logic states Asim A. Selcuk 1999-03-30 $2,138,000
5844836 Memory cell having increased capacitance via a local interconnect to gate capacitor and a method for making such a cell Nicholas J. Kepler, Asim A. Selcuk, Richard K. Klein, John C. Holst, Christopher A. Spence +2 more 1998-12-01 $5,030,000
5777370 Trench isolation of field effect transistors Farrokh Omid-Zohoor, Andre Stolmeijer, Yowjuang W. Liu 1998-07-07 $3,620,000
5136361 Stratified interconnect structure for integrated circuits Donald L. Wollesen, Jacob D. Haskell 1992-08-04 $1,832,000
4962064 Method of planarization of topologies in integrated circuit structures Jacob D. Haskell, Steven C. Avanzino, Subhash Gupta 1990-10-09 $943,000
4960732 Contact plug and interconnect employing a barrier lining and a backfilled conductor material Pankaj Dixit, Jack Sliwa, Richard K. Klein, Mohammad Farnaam 1990-10-02 $3,951,000
4951112 Triple-poly 4T static ram cell with two independent transistor gates Tat C. Choi, Richard K. Klein 1990-08-21 $1,542,000
4912540 Reduced area butting contact structure Richard K. Klein, Tat C. Choi 1990-03-27 $2,046,000
4884123 Contact plug and interconnect employing a barrier lining and a backfilled conductor material Pankaj Dixit, Jack Sliwa, Richard K. Klein, Mohammad Farnaam 1989-11-28 $2,481,000
4764800 Seal structure for an integrated circuit 1988-08-16 $2,671,000
4714686 Method of forming contact plugs for planarized integrated circuits Balaji Swaminathan 1987-12-22 $1,961,000
4677589 Dynamic random access memory cell having a charge amplifier Jacob D. Haskell 1987-06-30 $12,656,000