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Kevin E. Mello — 6 Patents

IBM: 5 patents #18,770 of 70,183Top 30%
UAUS Army: 1 patents #2,854 of 6,974Top 45%
Ballston Spa, NY: #58 of 212 inventorsTop 30%
New York: #23,374 of 115,490 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Kevin E. Mello has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in October 2012. Kevin E. Mello ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Kevin E. Mello in Ballston Spa, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2009.peak 21999: 1 patents19992006: 1 patents20062008: 1 patents20082009: 2 patents20092012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8288828 Via contact structure having dual silicide layers Michael Iwatake, Matthew Oonk, Amanda Piper, Yun-Yu Wang, Keith Kwong Hon Wong 2012-10-16 $3,795,000
7538029 Method of room temperature growth of SiOx on silicide as an etch stop layer for metal contact open of semiconductor devices Yun-Yu Wang, Christian Lavoie, Conal E. Murray, Matthew Oonk 2009-05-26 $7,976,000
7479436 Feed forward silicide control scheme based on spacer height controlling preclean time Ricky S. Amos, Bryant C. Colwill 2009-01-20 $5,212,000
7344983 Clustered surface preparation for silicide and metal contacts Sadanand V. Deshpande, Ying Li, Renee T. Mo, Wesley C. Natzle, Kirk D. Peterson +1 more 2008-03-18 $8,037,000
7015140 Selective salicidation methods Russell H. Arndt, Kenneth J. Giewont, M. Dean Sciacca 2006-03-21 $6,971,000
5956604 Ohmic contact to Gallium Arsenide using epitaxially deposited Cobalt Digermanide Sabrina L. Lee, Steven R. Soss, Toh-Ming Lu, Shyam P. Murarka 1999-09-21