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Rainer Knippelmeyer — 38 Patents

Applied Materials: 18 patents #747 of 7,310Top 15%
CGCarl Zeiss Microscopy Gmbh: 14 patents #23 of 564Top 5%
CGCarl Zeiss Nts Gmbh: 10 patents #2 of 103Top 2%
Kla-Tencor: 8 patents #333 of 2,049Top 20%
CGCarl Zeiss Smt Gmbh: 3 patents #370 of 1,189Top 35%
CACarl Ziess Smt Ag: 2 patents #1 of 34Top 3%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
Rainer Knippelmeyer has been granted 38 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in December 2022. Rainer Knippelmeyer ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Rainer Knippelmeyer in Aalen, MA, DE.

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Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11527379 Objective lens arrangement usable in particle-optical systems Stefan Schubert 2022-12-13
11302511 Field curvature correction for multi-beam inspection systems Alan D. Brodie, Christopher Sears, John Rouse, Grace Hsiu-Ling Chen 2022-04-12 $70,726,000
11120969 Method and system for charged particle microscopy with improved image beam stabilization and interrogation Doug K. Masnaghetti, Gabor Toth, David Trease, Rohit Bothra, Grace Hsiu-Ling Chen 2021-09-14 $65,482,000
10861671 Method and system for focus adjustment of a multi-beam scanning electron microscopy system Doug K. Masnaghetti, Richard R. Simmons, Scott A. Young, Mark A. McCord 2020-12-08 $176,504,000
10643819 Method and system for charged particle microscopy with improved image beam stabilization and interrogation Doug K. Masnaghetti, Gabor Toth, David Trease, Rohit Bothra, Grace Hsiu-Ling Chen 2020-05-05
10622184 Objective lens arrangement usable in particle-optical systems Stefan Schubert 2020-04-14
10541112 Charged particle beam system and method of operating the same Stefan Schubert, Thomas Kemen 2020-01-21
10504681 Particle-optical systems and arrangements and particle-optical components for such systems and arrangements Oliver Kienzle, Thomas Kemen, Heiko Mueller, Stephan Uhlemann, Maximilian Haider +2 more 2019-12-10
10460905 Backscattered electrons (BSE) imaging using multi-beam tools Mark A. McCord, Richard R. Simmons, Doug K. Masnaghetti 2019-10-29
10366862 Method and system for noise mitigation in a multi-beam scanning electron microscopy system Doug K. Masnaghetti, Richard R. Simmons, Mark A. McCord 2019-07-30
10354831 Charged particle inspection method and charged particle system Thomas Kemen, Stefan Schubert 2019-07-16
10325753 Method and system for focus adjustment of a multi-beam scanning electron microscopy system Doug K. Masnaghetti, Richard R. Simmons, Scott A. Young, Mark A. McCord 2019-06-18 $121,062,000
10192716 Multi-beam dark field imaging Doug K. Masnaghetti, Mark A. McCord, Richard R. Simmons 2019-01-29
10121635 Charged particle beam system and method of operating the same Stefan Schubert, Thomas Kemen 2018-11-06
9673024 Particle-optical systems and arrangements and particle-optical components for such systems and arrangements Oliver Kienzle, Thomas Kemen, Heiko Mueller, Stephan Uhlemann, Maximilian Haider +2 more 2017-06-06 $20,400,000
9530613 Focusing a charged particle system Steven R. Rogers, Thomas Kemen, Stefan Schubert, Nissim Elmaliah 2016-12-27 $14,994,000
9336981 Charged particle detection system and multi-beamlet inspection system 2016-05-10 $10,962,000
9324537 Charged particle inspection method and charged particle system Thomas Kemen, Stefan Schubert 2016-04-26 $17,040,000
9263233 Charged particle multi-beam inspection system and method of operating the same Dirk Zeidler, Thomas Kemen, Mario Muetzel, Stefan Schubert, Nissim Elmaliah +1 more 2016-02-16
9224576 Particle-optical systems and arrangements and particle-optical components for such systems and arrangements Oliver Kienzle, Thomas Kemen, Heiko Mueller, Stephan Uhlemann, Maximilian Haider +2 more 2015-12-29
9099282 Focusing a charged particle imaging system Steven R. Rogers, Thomas Kemen, Stefan Schubert, Nissim Elmaliah 2015-08-04 $15,119,000
8907277 Reducing particle implantation Nicholas Economou, Mohan Ananth, Lewis A. Stern, Bill DiNatale, Lawrence Scipioni +1 more 2014-12-09
8637834 Particle-optical systems and arrangements and particle-optical components for such systems and arrangements Oliver Kienzle, Thomas Kemen, Heiko Mueller, Stephan Uhlemann, Maximillian Haider +2 more 2014-01-28 $15,652,000
8384029 Cross-section systems and methods Lawrence Scipioni, Christoph Riedesel, John Morgan, Ulrich Mantz, Ulrich Wagemann 2013-02-26
8334701 Repairing defects Christoph Riedesel, John Morgan, Lawrence Scipioni 2012-12-18