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Thomas Patrick Duffey — 34 Patents

CYCymer: 34 patents #10 of 339Top 3%
Asml Netherlands B.V.: 3 patents #1,156 of 3,192Top 40%
San Diego, CA: #1,109 of 23,606 inventorsTop 5%
California: #14,619 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Thomas Patrick Duffey has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cymer. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in July 2025. Thomas Patrick Duffey ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Thomas Patrick Duffey in San Diego, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2019.peak 52000: 3 patents20002001: 3 patents2002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 1 patents20042007: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122015: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162017: 1 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 5 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 3 patents2024: 1 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12374853 Control system for a plurality of deep ultraviolet optical oscillators Yingbo Zhao, Walter Dale Gillespie, Joshua Jon Thornes, Eric Anders Mason 2025-07-29
12169363 Radiation source testing Russell Allen Burdt 2024-12-17
11777271 Method of and apparatus for extending electrode life in a laser chamber Paul C. Melcher, Walter Dale Gillespie 2023-10-03
11768438 Spectral feature selection and pulse timing control of a pulsed light beam Kevin M. O'Brien, Joshua Jon Thornes 2023-09-26
11686951 Reducing speckle in an excimer light source Wilhelmus Patrick Elisabeth Maria OP 'T ROOT, Herman Philip Godfried, Frank Everts, Joshua Jon Thornes, Brian Edward King 2023-06-27
11526083 Spectral feature selection and pulse timing control of a pulsed light beam Kevin M. O'Brien, Joshua Jon Thornes 2022-12-13
11054665 Reducing speckle in an excimer light source Wilhelmus Patrick Elisabeth Maria OP 'T ROOT, Herman Philip Godfried, Frank Everts, Joshua Jon Thornes, Brian Edward King 2021-07-06
10852227 Apparatus for and method of sensing fluorine concentration 2020-12-01
10845711 Lithography optics adjustment and monitoring Thomas F. A. Bibby, Omar Zurita, Abhishek Subramanian 2020-11-24
10451890 Reducing speckle in an excimer light source Wilhelmus Patrick Elisabeth Maria OP 'T ROOT, Herman Philip Godfried, Frank Everts, Joshua Jon Thornes, Brian Edward King 2019-10-22 $2,042,000
10345714 Lithography optics adjustment and monitoring Thomas F. A. Bibby, Omar Zurita, Abhishek Subramanian 2019-07-09
10288484 Homogenization of light beam for spectral feature metrology Zhongquan Zhao, Brian Edward King 2019-05-14
10267687 Adjusting an amount of coherence of a light beam Thomas F. A. Bibby, Joshua Jon Thornes, Rostislav Rokitski 2019-04-23
10228322 Apparatus for and method of sensing fluorine concentration 2019-03-12
10096967 Wavelength control system for pulse-by-pulse wavelength target tracking in DUV light source Rahul Ahlawat 2018-10-09
10074953 Erosion resistant electrodes for use in generating gas discharge laser Siqi Luo, Richard C. Ujazdowski, Walter Dale Gillespie 2018-09-11
10012544 Homogenization of light beam for spectral feature metrology Zhongquan Zhao, Brian Edward King 2018-07-03
9945730 Adjusting an amount of coherence of a light beam Thomas F. A. Bibby, Joshua Jon Thornes, Rostislav Rokitski 2018-04-17
9599510 Estimation of spectral feature of pulsed light beam Herman Philip Godfried 2017-03-21
9246298 Corrosion resistant electrodes for laser chambers Janine Kardokus, William N. Partlo 2016-01-26
8982922 Very high power laser chamber optical improvements Hong Ye, Alex Ershov, Rajasekhar Rao, Daniel J. W. Brown, Slava Rokitski +5 more 2015-03-17
8284815 Very high power laser chamber optical improvements Hong Ye, Alex Ershov, Rajasekhar Rao, Daniel J. W. Brown, Slava Rokitski +5 more 2012-10-09 $4,851,000
7995637 Gas discharge laser chamber Richard L. Sandstrom, William N. Partlo, Daniel J. W. Brown, Bryan Moosman, Tae Hoon Chung +2 more 2011-08-09 $9,337,000
7535948 Cathodes for fluorine gas discharge lasers Thomas D. Steiger, Joshua Brown, Walter Dale Gillespie, Richard G. Morton 2009-05-19 $8,145,000
7301980 Halogen gas discharge laser electrodes Thomas D. Steiger, Richard C. Ujazdowski, Timothy Dyer, Walter Dale Gillespie, Bryan Moosman +2 more 2007-11-27 $9,510,000