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Thomas Rupp — 18 Patents

Infineon Technologies Ag: 10 patents #917 of 7,486Top 15%
IBM: 9 patents #11,946 of 70,183Top 20%
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: 3 patents #4,667 of 22,248Top 25%
IAInfineon Technologies Austria Ag: 1 patents #668 of 1,126Top 60%
Stormville, NY: #14 of 88 inventorsTop 20%
New York: #7,989 of 115,490 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Thomas Rupp has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in December 2024. Thomas Rupp ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Thomas Rupp in Stormville, NY, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12183696 Semiconductor device including bonding pad metal layer structure Evelyn Napetschnig, Jens Brandenburg, Christoffer Erbert, Joachim Hirschler, Oliver Humbel +2 more 2024-12-31
11764176 Semiconductor device including bonding pad metal layer structure Evelyn Napetschnig, Jens Brandenburg, Christoffer Erbert, Joachim Hirschler, Oliver Humbel +2 more 2023-09-19
11329126 Method of manufacturing a superjunction semiconductor device Armin Tilke, Hans Weber, Christian Fachmann, Roman Knoefler, Gabor Mezoesi +3 more 2022-05-10
6960523 Method of reducing erosion of a nitride gate cap layer during reactive ion etch of nitride liner layer for bit line contact of DRAM device Michael Maldei, Prakash Dev, David M. Dobuzinsky, Johnathan E. Faltermeier, Chienfan Yu +3 more 2005-11-01
6699750 Vertical device formed adjacent to a wordline sidewall and method for semiconductor chips 2004-03-02 $143,000
6486505 Semiconductor contact and method of forming the same Jeffrey P. Gambino, Peter D. Hoh, Senthil Srinivasan 2002-11-26 $87,000
6444531 Disposable spacer technology for device tailoring Scott D. Halle 2002-09-03
6291335 Locally folded split level bitline wiring Rainer Florian Schnabel, Ulrike Gruening, Gerhard Mueller 2001-09-18 $253,000
6274440 Manufacturing of cavity fuses on gate conductor level Kenneth C. Arndt, Axel Brintzinger, Richard A. Conti, Donna R. Cote, Chandrasekhar Narayan +2 more 2001-08-14 $21,171,000
6268293 Method of forming wires on an integrated circuit chip Lawrence A. Clevenger, Greg Costrini, Dave Dobuzinsky, Yoichi Otani, Viraj Y. Sardesai 2001-07-31
6258659 Embedded vertical DRAM cells and dual workfunction logic gates Ulrike Gruening, Ramachandra Divakaruni, Jack A. Mandelman 2001-07-10 $19,901,000
6255158 Process of manufacturing a vertical dynamic random access memory device Toshiharu Furukawa, Ulrike Gruening, David V. Horak, Jack A. Mandelman, Carl Radens 2001-07-03 $26,086,000
6210995 Method for manufacturing fusible links in a semiconductor device Axel Brintzinger, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Scott D. Halle 2001-04-03
6204187 Contact and deep trench patterning Alan E. Thomas, Franz Zach 2001-03-20 $3,303,000
6172390 Semiconductor device with vertical transistor and buried word line Johann Alsmeier 2001-01-09
6153902 Vertical DRAM cell with wordline self-aligned to storage trench Toshiharu Furukawa, Ulrike Gruening, David V. Horak, Jack A. Mandelman, Carl Radens 2000-11-28 $55,341,000
6096664 Method of manufacturing semiconductor structures including a pair of MOSFETs Stephan Kudelka, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Mary E. Weybright 2000-08-01 $27,147,000
6091094 Vertical device formed adjacent to a wordline sidewall and method for semiconductor chips 2000-07-18