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David E. Kotecki — 60 Patents

IBM: 59 patents #1,352 of 70,183Top 2%
Infineon Technologies Ag: 5 patents #1,759 of 7,486Top 25%
ACAdvanced Technology & Materials Co.: 2 patents #161 of 410Top 40%
VAVarian: 2 patents #151 of 684Top 25%
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: 1 patents #10,653 of 22,248Top 50%
Hopewell Junction, NY: #21 of 648 inventorsTop 4%
New York: #1,385 of 115,490 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #38,820 of 4,157,543Top 1%
60 Patents All Time
David E. Kotecki has been granted 60 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in June 2004. David E. Kotecki ranks #38,820 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.93%). Patent records list David E. Kotecki in Hopewell Junction, NY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 60 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6753252 Contact plug formation for devices with stacked capacitors Youngjin Park, Heon Lee, Greg Costrini 2004-06-22
6727174 Method for fabricating a dual-diameter electrical conductor Katherine L. Saenger 2004-04-27 $8,134,000
6544832 Method of fabricating a stack capacitor DRAM William H. Ma 2003-04-08 $14,785,000
6429474 Storage-capacitor electrode and interconnect Jeffrey P. Gambino, Gary B. Bronner, Carl Radens 2002-08-06 $5,918,000
6420272 Method for removal of hard mask used to define noble metal electrode Hua Shen, Satish D. Athavale, Jenny Lian, Gerhard Kunkel, Nimal Chaudhary 2002-07-16
6395594 Method for simultaneously forming a storage-capacitor electrode and interconnect Carl Radens, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Gary B. Bronner 2002-05-28 $13,038,000
6379577 Hydrogen peroxide and acid etchant for a wet etch process Hiroyuki Akatsu, Jingyu Lian, Hua Shen 2002-04-30 $15,490,000
6365328 Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method Hua Shen, Satish D. Athavale, Jenny Lian, Laertis Economikos, Fen F. Jamin +2 more 2002-04-02
6355567 Retrograde openings in thin films Scott D. Halle, Paul C. Jamison, Richard S. Wise 2002-03-12 $13,941,000
6339007 Capacitor stack structure and method of fabricating description Yun-Yu Wang, Rajarao Jammy, Lee J. Kimball, Jenny Lian, Chenting Lin +4 more 2002-01-15 $19,229,000
6323127 Capacitor formed with Pt electrodes having a 3D cup-like shape with roughened inner and outer surfaces Panayotis Andricacos, Gregory Costrini, Katherine L. Saenger 2001-11-27 $23,652,000
6268259 Overhanging separator for self-defining stacked capacitor William H. Ma 2001-07-31 $29,242,000
6262450 DRAM stack capacitor with vias and conductive connection extending from above conductive lines to the substrate William H. Ma 2001-07-17 $23,321,000
6261967 Easy to remove hard mask layer for semiconductor device fabrication Satish D. Athavale, Hua Shen, Jenny Lian 2001-07-17
6255157 Method for forming a ferroelectric capacitor under the bit line Louis L. Hsu, Jack A. Mandelman 2001-07-03 $26,086,000
6242321 Structure and fabrication method for non-planar memory elements Raul E. Acosta, James H. Comfort, Alfred Grill, Katherine L. Saenger 2001-06-05 $46,299,000
6222219 Crown capacitor using a tapered etch of a damascene lower electrode Jeffrey P. Gambino 2001-04-24 $20,927,000
6207584 High dielectric constant material deposition to achieve high capacitance Hua Shen, Robert Benjamin Laibowitz, Katherine L. Saenger, Satish D. Athavale, Jenny Lian +3 more 2001-03-27
6201272 Method for simultaneously forming a storage-capacitor electrode and interconnect Carl Radens, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Gary B. Bronner 2001-03-13 $29,262,000
6191469 Overhanging separator for self-defining discontinuous film William H. Ma 2001-02-20 $23,750,000
6178082 High temperature, conductive thin film diffusion barrier for ceramic/metal systems Mukta S. Farooq, Robert A. Rita, Stephen M. Rossnagel 2001-01-23 $22,404,000
6166423 Integrated circuit having a via and a capacitor Jeffrey P. Gambino, Mark A. Jaso 2000-12-26 $36,095,000
6165864 Tapered electrode for stacked capacitors Hua Shen, Joachim Nuetzel, Carl Radens 2000-12-26
6153491 Overhanging separator for self-defining discontinuous film William H. Ma 2000-11-28 $55,341,000
6150230 Trench separator for self-defining discontinuous film William H. Ma 2000-11-21 $39,339,000