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Lewis Shen — 35 Patents

AMD: 34 patents #278 of 9,280Top 3%
Cupertino, CA: #440 of 6,989 inventorsTop 7%
California: #14,008 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #96,288 of 4,157,543Top 3%
35 Patents All Time
Lewis Shen has been granted 35 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in April 2005. Lewis Shen ranks #96,288 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.3%). Patent records list Lewis Shen in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2000.peak 61989: 1 patents19891990: 1 patents1991: 1 patents19911997: 5 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 3 patents2000: 6 patents20002001: 5 patents2002: 6 patents20022003: 3 patents2005: 2 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 35 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6878622 Method for forming SAC using a dielectric as a BARC and FICD enlarger Wenge Yang, Ramkumar Subramanian, Fei Wang 2005-04-12 $6,806,000
6867097 Method of making a memory cell with polished insulator layer Mark T. Ramsbey, Robert B. Ogle, Tommy Hsiao, Angela T. Hui, Tuan Pham +1 more 2005-03-15 $4,259,000
6586339 Silicon barrier layer to prevent resist poisoning Marina V. Plat, Robert B. Ogle 2003-07-01 $4,199,000
6534411 Method of high density plasma metal etching Wenge Yang 2003-03-18 $1,685,000
6515328 Semiconductor devices with reduced control gate dimensions Wenge Yang, Mark S. Chang 2003-02-04 $1,030,000
6452225 Method and structure of etching a memory cell polysilicon gate layer using resist mask and etched silicon oxynitride Wenge Yang 2002-09-17
6383939 Method for etching memory gate stack using thin resist layer Wenge Yang 2002-05-07 $2,110,000
6372651 Method for trimming a photoresist pattern line for memory gate etching Wenge Yang 2002-04-16 $2,231,000
6365509 Semiconductor manufacturing method using a dielectric photomask Ramkumar Subramanian, Wenge Yang, Marina V. Plat 2002-04-02 $3,760,000
6355546 Thermally grown protective oxide buffer layer for ARC removal Richard J. Huang 2002-03-12 $4,949,000
6352930 Bilayer anti-reflective coating and etch hard mask Kathleen R. Early, Suzette K. Pangrle, Maria C. Chan 2002-03-05 $11,927,000
6291329 Protective oxide buffer layer for ARC removal Richard J. Huang 2001-09-18 $2,710,000
6271154 Methods for treating a deep-UV resist mask prior to gate formation etch to improve gate profile Wenge Yang 2001-08-07 $4,984,000
6232002 Bilayer anti-reflective coating and etch hard mask Kathleen R. Early, Suzette K. Pangrle, Maria C. Chan 2001-05-15 $7,906,000
6218310 RTA methods for treating a deep-UV resist mask prior to gate formation etch to improve gate profile Wenge Yang 2001-04-17 $5,863,000
6174819 Low temperature photoresist removal for rework during metal mask formation Jeffrey A. Shields, Anne E. Sanderfer 2001-01-16 $7,676,000
6159794 Methods for removing silicide residue in a semiconductor device Wenge Yang 2000-12-12 $4,351,000
6159860 Method for etching layers on a semiconductor wafer in a single etching chamber Wenge Yang 2000-12-12 $4,351,000
6110779 Method and structure of etching a memory cell polysilicon gate layer using resist mask and etched silicon oxynitride Wenge Yang 2000-08-29 $7,735,000
6074956 Method for preventing silicide residue formation in a semiconductor device Wenge Yang 2000-06-13 $9,833,000
6025268 Method of etching conductive lines through an etch resistant photoresist mask 2000-02-15 $6,005,000
6011289 Metal oxide stack for flash memory application Richard J. Huang 2000-01-04 $4,612,000
5977601 Method for etching memory gate stack using thin resist layer Wenge Yang 1999-11-02 $2,027,000
5973353 Methods and arrangements for forming a tapered floating gate in non-volatile memory semiconductor devices Wenge Yang 1999-10-26 $1,975,000
5948703 Method of soft-landing gate etching to prevent gate oxide damage Wenge Yang 1999-09-07 $3,060,000