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Thomas E. Spikes, Jr. — 34 Patents

AMD: 32 patents #304 of 9,280Top 4%
APAdvanced Microdevices Pvt: 1 patents #2 of 26Top 8%
Round Rock, TX: #99 of 1,915 inventorsTop 6%
Texas: #3,248 of 125,132 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Thomas E. Spikes, Jr. has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at AMD. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in July 2003. Thomas E. Spikes, Jr. ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Thomas E. Spikes, Jr. in Round Rock, TX, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6599174 Eliminating dishing non-uniformity of a process layer 2003-07-29 $3,092,000
6555396 Method and apparatus for enhancing endpoint detection of a via etch Ailian Zhao, John A. Iacoponi 2003-04-29 $1,822,000
6458678 Transistor formed using a dual metal process for gate and source/drain region Frederick N. Hause, David Wu 2002-10-01 $734,000
6326251 Method of making salicidation of source and drain regions with metal gate MOSFET Mark I. Gardner, H. Jim Fulford 2001-12-04 $4,361,000
6309936 Integrated formation of LDD and non-LDD semiconductor devices Mark I. Gardner, Robert Paiz 2001-10-30 $4,666,000
6271112 Interlayer between titanium nitride and high density plasma oxide Christopher Wooten, Craig W. Christian, Allen L. Evans, Tim Z. Hossain 2001-08-07 $4,984,000
6239476 Integrated circuit isolation structure employing a protective layer and method for making same Mark I. Gardner, H. Jim Fulford 2001-05-29 $6,079,000
6228724 Method of making high performance MOSFET with enhanced gate oxide integration and device formed thereby Mark I. Gardner, H. Jim Fulford 2001-05-08 $6,632,000
6225201 Ultra short transistor channel length dictated by the width of a sidewall spacer Mark I. Gardner, Derrick J. Wristers, Jon D. Cheek 2001-05-01 $7,851,000
6211000 Method of making high performance mosfets having high conductivity gate conductors Mark I. Gardner, H. Jim Fulford 2001-04-03 $5,058,000
6194283 High density trench fill due to new spacer fill method including isotropically etching silicon nitride spacers Mark I. Gardner, Robert Paiz 2001-02-27 $7,317,000
6171917 Transistor sidewall spacers composed of silicon nitride CVD deposited from a high density plasma source Sey-Ping Sun, Fred N. Hause 2001-01-09 $4,016,000
6160316 Integrated circuit utilizing an air gap to reduce capacitance between adjacent metal linewidths Mark I. Gardner, Robert Paiz 2000-12-12 $4,351,000
6140190 Method and structure for elevated source/drain with polished gate electrode insulated gate field effect transistors Mark I. Gardner, Michael Duane 2000-10-31 $4,395,000
6140163 Method and apparatus for upper level substrate isolation integrated with bulk silicon Mark I. Gardner, Daniel Kadosh 2000-10-31 $4,395,000
6124174 Spacer structure as transistor gate Mark I. Gardner 2000-09-26 $6,800,000
6114219 Method of manufacturing an isolation region in a semiconductor device using a flowable oxide-generating material Sey-Ping Sun, Robert Dawson 2000-09-05 $8,144,000
6110785 Formulation of high performance transistors using gate trim etch process Mark I. Gardner, Anthony J. Toprac 2000-08-29 $7,735,000
6100204 Method of making ultra thin gate oxide using aluminum oxide Mark I. Gardner, Mark C. Gilmer 2000-08-08 $4,885,000
6074904 Method and structure for isolating semiconductor devices after transistor formation Mark W. Michael, Mark I. Gardner, Robert Dawson 2000-06-13 $9,833,000
6064102 Semiconductor device having gate electrodes with different gate insulators and fabrication thereof Mark I. Gardner, H. Jim Fulford 2000-05-16 $14,024,000
6048766 Flash memory device having high permittivity stacked dielectric and fabrication thereof Mark I. Gardner, Mark C. Gilmer 2000-04-11 $13,721,000
6037244 Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using advanced contact formation Mark I. Gardner, Robert Paiz, Frederick N. Hause, Sey-Ping Sun 2000-03-14 $8,869,000
5981354 Semiconductor fabrication employing a flowable oxide to enhance planarization in a shallow trench isolation process Fred N. Hause, Daniel Kadosh 1999-11-09 $2,369,000
5970375 Semiconductor fabrication employing a local interconnect Mark I. Gardner, Daniel Kadosh 1999-10-19 $1,257,000