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Stephan Grunow — 44 Patents

IBM: 28 patents #3,689 of 70,183Top 6%
TITexas Instruments: 15 patents #895 of 12,488Top 8%
AMD: 3 patents #3,740 of 9,280Top 45%
CMChartered Semiconductor Manufacturing: 1 patents #419 of 840Top 50%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
Samsung: 1 patents #50,112 of 75,807Top 70%
Poughkeepsie, NY: #82 of 1,613 inventorsTop 6%
New York: #2,301 of 115,490 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #66,838 of 4,157,543Top 2%
44 Patents All Time
Stephan Grunow has been granted 44 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2005 and the most recent in March 2019. Stephan Grunow ranks #66,838 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.6%). Patent records list Stephan Grunow in Poughkeepsie, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2005 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2010.peak 82005: 2 patents20052006: 3 patents2007: 3 patents20072008: 3 patents2009: 4 patents20092010: 8 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 3 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 44 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10229875 Stacked via structure for metal fuse applications Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Ronald G. Filippi, Naftali E. Lustig, Andrew H. Simon +1 more 2019-03-12 $2,141,000
9893011 Back-end electrically programmable fuse Junjing Bao, Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Samuel S. Choi, Ronald G. Filippi +3 more 2018-02-13 $2,196,000
9685404 Back-end electrically programmable fuse Junjing Bao, Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Samuel S. Choi, Ronald G. Filippi +3 more 2017-06-20 $2,315,000
9425144 Metal fuse structure for improved programming capability Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Samuel S. Choi, Ronald G. Filippi, Naftali E. Lustig +2 more 2016-08-23 $3,675,000
9360525 Stacked via structure for metal fuse applications Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Ronald G. Filippi, Naftali E. Lustig, Andrew H. Simon +1 more 2016-06-07 $4,256,000
9142506 E-fuse structures and methods of manufacture Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Samuel S. Choi, Ronald G. Filippi, Naftali E. Lustig +1 more 2015-09-22 $4,871,000
9093164 Redundant via structure for metal fuse applications Ronald G. Filippi, Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Samuel S. Choi, Naftali E. Lustig +1 more 2015-07-28 $3,451,000
9059169 E-fuse structures and methods of manufacture Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Samuel S. Choi, Ronald G. Filippi, Naftali E. Lustig +1 more 2015-06-16 $2,098,000
8962467 Metal fuse structure for improved programming capability Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Samuel S. Choi, Ronald G. Filippi, Naftali E. Lustig +2 more 2015-02-24 $3,851,000
8836124 Fuse and integrated conductor Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Samuel S. Choi, Ronald G. Filippi, Naftali E. Lustig +1 more 2014-09-16 $3,547,000
8742766 Stacked via structure for metal fuse applications Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Ronald G. Filippi, Naftali E. Lustig, Andrew H. Simon +1 more 2014-06-03 $4,638,000
8633707 Stacked via structure for metal fuse applications Ronald G. Filippi, Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Naftali E. Lustig, Andrew H. Simon +1 more 2014-01-21 $5,923,000
8444868 Method for removing copper oxide layer Tien-Jen Cheng, Zhengwen Li, Huilong Zhu 2013-05-21 $6,083,000
8367544 Self-aligned patterned etch stop layers for semiconductor devices Kangguo Cheng, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Johnathan E. Faltermeier, Kaushik A. Kumar, Kevin S. Petrarca 2013-02-05 $5,221,000
8298948 Capping of copper interconnect lines in integrated circuit devices Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Ronald G. Filippi, David L. Rath, Sujatha Sankaran +3 more 2012-10-30
8232646 Interconnect structure for integrated circuits having enhanced electromigration resistance Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Ronald G. Filippi, Chao-Kun Hu, Naftali E. Lustig +2 more 2012-07-31 $5,473,000
8211794 Properties of metallic copper diffusion barriers through silicon surface treatments Valli Arunachalam, Satyavolu Srinivas Papa Rao, Sanjeev Aggarwal 2012-07-03 $8,351,000
8056039 Interconnect structure for integrated circuits having improved electromigration characteristics Kaushik Chanda, Ronald G. Filippi, Chao-Kun Hu, Sujatha Sankaran, Andrew H. Simon +1 more 2011-11-08 $3,097,000
8026166 Interconnect structures comprising capping layers with low dielectric constants and methods of making the same Griselda Bonilla, Tien-Jen Cheng, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Chao-Kun Hu, Roger A. Quon +5 more 2011-09-27 $6,526,000
7985928 Gap free anchored conductor and dielectric structure and method for fabrication thereof Tibor Bolom, David L. Rath, Andrew H. Simon 2011-07-26
7888252 Self-aligned contact Johnathan E. Faltermeier, Kangguo Cheng, Kevin S. Petrarca, Kaushik A. Kumar, Lawrence A. Clevenger +2 more 2011-02-15 $3,434,000
7833893 Method for forming conductive structures Kaushik A. Kumar, Kevin S. Petrarca, Richard P. Volant 2010-11-16 $4,384,000
7825019 Structures and methods for reduction of parasitic capacitances in semiconductor integrated circuits Lawrence A. Clevenger, Kaushik A. Kumar, Kevin S. Petrarca, Vidhya Ramachandran 2010-11-02 $3,442,000
7781884 Method of fabrication of on-chip heat pipes and ancillary heat transfer components Sameer Ajmera, Phillip D. Matz, Satyavolu Srinivas Papa Rao 2010-08-24 $6,220,000
7776737 Reliability of wide interconnects Griselda Bonilla, Kaushik Chanda, Ronald G. Filippi, Sujatha Sankaran, Andrew H. Simon +1 more 2010-08-17 $4,695,000