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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025
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Timothy J. Dalton

IBM: 171 patents #222 of 70,183Top 1%
Infineon Technologies Ag: 9 patents #1,105 of 7,486Top 15%
Globalfoundries: 2 patents #1,397 of 4,424Top 35%
DEDigital Equipment: 1 patents #1,005 of 2,100Top 50%
MIT: 1 patents #4,386 of 9,367Top 50%
Ridgefield, CT: #3 of 574 inventorsTop 1%
Connecticut: #29 of 34,797 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #4,520 of 4,157,543Top 1%
175 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 126–150 of 175 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7122462 Back end interconnect with a shaped interface Lawrence A. Clevenger, Andrew P. Cowley, Mark Hoinkis, Steffen K. Kaldor, Erdem Kaltalioglu +8 more 2006-10-17
7115921 Nano-scaled gate structure with self-interconnect capabilities Lawrence A. Clevenger, Louis L. Hsu, Carl Radens, Keith Kwong Hon Wong, Chih-Chao Yang 2006-10-03
7105445 Interconnect structures with encasing cap and methods of making thereof Kwong Hon Wong, Louis C. Hsu, Carl Radens, Chih-Chao Yang, Lawrence A. Clevenger +1 more 2006-09-12
7102232 Structure to improve adhesion between top CVD low-k dielectric and dielectric capping layer Lawrence A. Clevenger, Stefanie Chiras, James J. Demarest, Derren N. Dunn, Chester T. Dziobkowski +7 more 2006-09-05
7098476 Multilayer interconnect structure containing air gaps and method for making Katherina Babich, Roy A. Carruthers, Alfred Grill, Jeffrey Hedrick, Christopher V. Jahnes +4 more 2006-08-29
7092235 Method for adjusting capacitance of an on-chip capacitor Lawrence A. Clevenger, Louis L. Hsu, Carl Radens, Keith Kwong Hon Wong, Chih-Chao Yang 2006-08-15
7091542 Method of forming a MIM capacitor for Cu BEOL application Chih-Chao Yang, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Gerald Matusiewicz 2006-08-15
7091612 Dual damascene structure and method Kaushik A. Kumar, Larry Clevenger, Andy Cowley, Douglas C. La Tulipe, Jr., Mark Hoinkis +5 more 2006-08-15
7084479 Line level air gaps Shyng-Tsong Chen, Stefanie Chiras, Matthew E. Colburn, Jeffrey Hedrick, Elbert E. Huang +9 more 2006-08-01
7064064 Copper recess process with application to selective capping and electroless plating Shyng-Tsong Chen, Kenneth M. Davis, Chao-Kun Hu, Fen F. Jamin, Steffen K. Kaldor +11 more 2006-06-20
7060624 Deep filled vias Panayotis Andricacos, Emanuel I. Cooper, Hariklia Deligianni, Daniel Guidotti, Keith Kwietniak +2 more 2006-06-13
7052621 Bilayered metal hardmasks for use in Dual Damascene etch schemes Kaushik A. Kumar, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Douglas C. La Tulipe, Jr., Andy Cowley, Erdem Kaltalioglu +5 more 2006-05-30
7049209 De-fluorination of wafer surface and related structure Nicholas Fuller, Kaushik A. Kumar, Catherine B. Labelle 2006-05-23
7045453 Very low effective dielectric constant interconnect structures and methods for fabricating the same Donald F. Canaperi, Stephen M. Gates, Mahadevaiyer Krishnan, Satya V. Nitta, Sampath Purushothaman +1 more 2006-05-16
7023093 Very low effective dielectric constant interconnect Structures and methods for fabricating the same Donald F. Canaperi, Stephen M. Gates, Mahadevaiyer Krishnan, Satya V. Nitta, Sampath Purushothaman +1 more 2006-04-04
7014958 Method for dry etching photomask material Thomas B. Faure, Michelle L. Steen 2006-03-21
7014959 CD uniformity of chrome etch to photomask process Shaun Crawford, Thomas B. Faure, Cuc K. Huynh, Michelle L. Steen, Thomas M. Wagner 2006-03-21
7001835 Crystallographic modification of hard mask properties Lawrence A. Clevenger, Andrew P. Cowley, Mark Hoinkis, Steffen K. Kaldor, Kaushik A. Kumar +3 more 2006-02-21
6975032 Copper recess process with application to selective capping and electroless plating Shyng-Tsong Chen, Kenneth M. Davis, Chao-Kun Hu, Fen F. Jamin, Steffen K. Kaldor +11 more 2005-12-13
6960519 Interconnect structure improvements John A. Fitzsimmons, Jeffrey P. Gambino, Lee M. Nicholson, Andrew H. Simon, Anthony K. Stamper 2005-11-01
6933191 Two-mask process for metal-insulator-metal capacitors and single mask process for thin film resistors Glenn A. Biery, Zheng Chen, Naftali E. Lustig 2005-08-23
6927472 Fuse structure and method to form the same David K. Anderson, Tien-Jen Cheng, Christopher V. Jahnes, Andrew Lu, Chandrasekhar Narayan +3 more 2005-08-09
6924185 Fuse structure and method to form the same David K. Anderson, Tien-Jen Cheng, Christopher V. Jahnes, Andrew Lu, Chandrasekhar Narayan +3 more 2005-08-02
6873027 Encapsulated energy-dissipative fuse for integrated circuits and method of making the same Kevin S. Petrarca, Richard P. Volant 2005-03-29
6869895 Method for adjusting capacitance of an on-chip capacitor Lawrence A. Clevenger, Louis L. Hsu, Carl Radens, Keith Kwong Hon Wong, Chih-Chao Yang 2005-03-22