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Robert M. Geffken — 43 Patents

IBM: 39 patents #2,426 of 70,183Top 4%
TETel Epion: 4 patents #17 of 54Top 35%
Burlington, VT: #13 of 475 inventorsTop 3%
Vermont: #155 of 4,968 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #69,380 of 4,157,543Top 2%
43 Patents All Time
Robert M. Geffken has been granted 43 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in November 2010. Robert M. Geffken ranks #69,380 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Robert M. Geffken in Burlington, VT, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 43 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7838423 Method of forming capping structures on one or more material layer surfaces Arthur J. Learn, Steven R. Sherman, John Hautala 2010-11-23
7799683 Copper interconnect wiring and method and apparatus for forming thereof Arthur J. Learn, Steven R. Sherman, John Hautala 2010-09-21
7759251 Dual damascene integration structure and method for forming improved dual damascene integration structure John Hautala 2010-07-20
7655547 Metal spacer in single and dual damascene processing Edward C. Cooney, III, Anthony K. Stamper 2010-02-02 $8,575,000
7393777 Sacrificial metal spacer damascene process Edward C. Cooney, III, Anthony K. Stamper 2008-07-01 $7,630,000
7381637 Metal spacer in single and dual damascence processing Edward C. Cooney, III, Anthony K. Stamper 2008-06-03 $7,325,000
7358148 Adjustable self-aligned air gap dielectric for low capacitance wiring William T. Motsiff 2008-04-15 $8,007,000
7291558 Copper interconnect wiring and method of forming thereof John Hautala, Steven R. Sherman, Arthur J. Learn 2007-11-06
7071532 Adjustable self-aligned air gap dielectric for low capacitance wiring William T. Motsiff 2006-07-04
6982227 Single and multilevel rework Edward C. Cooney, III, Vincent J. McGahay, William T. Motsiff, Mark P. Murray, Amanda Piper +4 more 2006-01-03 $6,490,000
6939791 Contact capping local interconnect David V. Horak, Anthony K. Stamper 2005-09-06 $5,379,000
6888251 Metal spacer in single and dual damascene processing Edward C. Cooney, III, Anthony K. Stamper 2005-05-03 $8,163,000
6846741 Sacrificial metal spacer damascene process Edward C. Cooney, III, Anthony K. Stamper 2005-01-25 $10,247,000
6746947 Post-fuse blow corrosion prevention structure for copper fuses Timothy H. Daubenspeck, Daniel C. Edelstein, William T. Motsiff, Anthony K. Stamper, Steven H. Voldman 2004-06-08 $6,083,000
6680514 Contact capping local interconnect David V. Horak, Anthony K. Stamper 2004-01-20 $10,094,000
6674168 Single and multilevel rework Edward C. Cooney, III, Vincent J. McGahay, William T. Motsiff, Mark P. Murray, Amanda Piper +4 more 2004-01-06 $7,683,000
6548338 Integrated high-performance decoupling capacitor and heat sink Kerry Bernstein, Wilbur D. Pricer, Anthony K. Stamper, Steven H. Voldman 2003-04-15 $16,310,000
6503827 Method of reducing planarization defects Susan G. Bombardier, Paul M. Feeney, David V. Horak, Matthew J. Rutten 2003-01-07 $16,905,000
6498385 Post-fuse blow corrosion prevention structure for copper fuses Timothy H. Daubenspeck, Daniel C. Edelstein, William T. Motsiff, Anthony K. Stamper, Steven H. Voldman 2002-12-24 $23,154,000
6495917 Method and structure of column interconnect John J. Ellis-Monaghan, Paul M. Feeney, Howard S. Landis, Rosemary A. Previti-Kelly, Bette L. Bergman Reuter +3 more 2002-12-17 $17,155,000
6452251 Damascene metal capacitor Kerry Bernstein, Anthony K. Stamper, Stephen A. St. Onge 2002-09-17 $8,846,000
6426558 Metallurgy for semiconductor devices Jonathan D. Chapple-Sokol, Paul M. Feeney, David V. Horak, Mark P. Murray, Anthony K. Stamper 2002-07-30 $10,205,000
6426249 Buried metal dual damascene plate capacitor Anthony K. Stamper 2002-07-30 $10,205,000
6420263 Method for controlling extrusions in aluminum metal lines and the device formed therefrom Roger W. Cheek, George A. Dunbar, III, William J. Murphy, Prabhat Tiwari, David H. Yao 2002-07-16 $9,944,000
6344373 Antifuse structure and process Arup Bhattacharyya, Chung H. Lam, Robert K. Leidy 2002-02-05 $11,026,000