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Susan H. Chen — 22 Patents

AMD: 21 patents #526 of 9,280Top 6%
Applied Materials: 1 patents #4,824 of 7,310Top 70%
Sunnyvale, CA: #1,137 of 14,302 inventorsTop 8%
California: #25,951 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Susan H. Chen has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in December 2003. Susan H. Chen ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Susan H. Chen in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2003Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2000.peak 71995: 2 patents19951998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents19992000: 7 patents20002001: 3 patents20012002: 6 patents20022003: 2 patents2003

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6660618 Reverse mask and oxide layer deposition for reduction of vertical capacitance variation in multi-layer metallization systems Paul R. Besser 2003-12-09 $2,702,000
6511904 Reverse mask and nitride layer deposition for reduction of vertical capacitance variation in multi-layer metallization systems Paul R. Besser 2003-01-28 $2,528,000
6461923 Sidewall spacer etch process for improved silicide formation Angela T. Hui, Paul R. Besser 2002-10-08 $890,000
6391750 Method of selectively controlling contact resistance by controlling impurity concentration and silicide thickness Paul R. Besser 2002-05-21 $2,063,000
6383947 Anti-reflective coating used in the fabrication of microcircuit structures in 0.18 micron and smaller technologies Paul R. Besser, Bhanwar Singh, Darrell M. Erb, Carmen Morales 2002-05-07 $2,110,000
6368949 Post-spacer etch surface treatment for improved silicide formation Simon S. Chan 2002-04-09 $2,418,000
6355575 Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing without damaging HSQ layer and metal pattern Fei Wang, Simon S. Chan 2002-03-12 $4,949,000
6346745 Cu-A1 combined interconnect system Takeshi Nogami 2002-02-12 $7,726,000
6331732 Via structure in an integrated circuit utilizing a high conductivity metal interconnect and a method for manufacturing same Subhash Gupta 2001-12-18 $8,747,000
6294396 Monitoring barrier metal deposition for metal interconnect Takeshi Nogami, Imran Hashim 2001-09-25
6268285 Method of removing plasma etch damage to pre-silicidized surfaces by wet silicon etch Steven C. Avanzino 2001-07-31 $5,560,000
6165855 Antireflective coating used in the fabrication of microcircuit structures in 0.18 micron and smaller technologies Paul R. Besser, Bhanwar Singh, Darrell M. Erb, Carmen Morales 2000-12-26 $2,711,000
6159863 Insitu hardmask and metal etch in a single etcher Judi Quan Rizzuto, Anne E. Sanderfer 2000-12-12 $4,351,000
6140706 Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing without damaging HSQ layer and metal pattern utilizing multiple dielectric layers Fei Wang, Simon S. Chan 2000-10-31 $4,395,000
6117769 Pad structure for copper interconnection and its formation Takeshi Nogami, Shekhar Pramanick 2000-09-12 $6,091,000
6114235 Multipurpose cap layer dielectric David K. Foote, Minh Van Ngo, Christopher F. Lyons, Fei Wang, Raymond T. Lee +2 more 2000-09-05 $8,144,000
6071824 Method and system for patterning to enhance performance of a metal layer of a semiconductor device Bhanwar Singh, Subhash Gupta, Mutya Vicente 2000-06-06 $15,623,000
6054384 Use of hard masks during etching of openings in integrated circuits for high etch selectivity Fei Wang 2000-04-25 $12,545,000
5994206 Method of forming a high conductivity metal interconnect using metal gettering plug and system performing the method Subhash Gupta 1999-11-30 $2,801,000
5726920 Watchdog system having data differentiating means for use in monitoring of semiconductor wafer testing line Ying Shiau, Chern-Jiann Lee 1998-03-10 $9,720,000
5468339 Plasma etch process Subhash Gupta 1995-11-21 $3,197,000
5468340 Highly selective high aspect ratio oxide etch method and products made by the process Subhash Gupta, Angela T. Hui 1995-11-21