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Viraj Y. Sardesai — 56 Patents

IBM: 47 patents #1,876 of 70,183Top 3%
Globalfoundries: 9 patents #393 of 4,424Top 9%
Infineon Technologies Ag: 3 patents #2,552 of 7,486Top 35%
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba: 1 patents #13,641 of 21,451Top 65%
Poughkeepsie, NY: #62 of 1,613 inventorsTop 4%
New York: #1,572 of 115,490 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #44,020 of 4,157,543Top 2%
56 Patents All Time
Viraj Y. Sardesai has been granted 56 US patents while listed as an inventor at IBM. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in February 2021. Viraj Y. Sardesai ranks #44,020 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list Viraj Y. Sardesai in Poughkeepsie, NY, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2016.peak 151995: 1 patents19952000: 2 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2011: 1 patents20112013: 7 patents2014: 5 patents20142015: 6 patents2016: 15 patents20162017: 5 patents2018: 5 patents20182019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 56 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10916431 Robust gate cap for protecting a gate from downstream metallization etch operations Raghuveer R. Patlolla, Hari Prasad Amanapu, Vimal Kamineni, Sugirtha Krishnamurthy, Cornelius Brown Peethala 2021-02-09 $3,536,000
10741554 Third type of metal gate stack for CMOS devices Ramachandra Divakaruni, Sameer H. Jain, Keith H. Tabakman 2020-08-11 $2,122,000
10262996 Third type of metal gate stack for CMOS devices Ramachandra Divakaruni, Sameer H. Jain, Keith H. Tabakman 2019-04-16 $3,839,000
10083865 Partial spacer for increasing self aligned contact process margins Emre Alptekin, Ravikumar Ramachandran, Reinaldo Vega 2018-09-25 $2,527,000
10043708 Structure and method for capping cobalt contacts Suraj K. Patil, Scott Beasor, Vimal Kamineni 2018-08-07 $10,289,000
9997411 Formation of metal resistor and e-fuse Cung D. Tran, Emre Alptekin, Reinaldo Vega 2018-06-12 $1,886,000
9985104 Contact first replacement metal gate Emre Alptekin, Ravikumar Ramachandran 2018-05-29 $2,015,000
9929047 Partial spacer for increasing self aligned contact process margins Emre Alptekin, Ravikumar Ramachandran, Reinaldo Vega 2018-03-27 $2,459,000
9679993 Fin end spacer for preventing merger of raised active regions Emre Alptekin, Sameer H. Jain, Cung D. Tran, Reinaldo Vega 2017-06-13 $2,356,000
9647124 Semiconductor devices with graphene nanoribbons Emre Alptekin, Reinaldo Vega 2017-05-09 $10,322,000
9634006 Third type of metal gate stack for CMOS devices Ramachandra Divakaruni, Sameer H. Jain, Keith H. Tabakman 2017-04-25 $1,937,000
9601380 Fin end spacer for preventing merger of raised active regions Emre Alptekin, Sameer H. Jain, Cung D. Tran, Reinaldo Vega 2017-03-21 $2,195,000
9553157 Diffusion-controlled oxygen depletion of semiconductor contact interface Emre Alptekin, Ahmet S. Ozcan, Kathryn T. Schonenberg, Cung D. Tran 2017-01-24 $6,164,000
9530684 Method and structure to suppress finFET heating Emre Alptekin, Cung D. Tran, Reinaldo Vega 2016-12-27 $8,113,000
9515168 Fin end spacer for preventing merger of raised active regions Emre Alptekin, Sameer H. Jain, Cung D. Tran, Reinaldo Vega 2016-12-06 $2,582,000
9496362 Contact first replacement metal gate Emre Alptekin, Ravikumar Ramachandran 2016-11-15 $2,170,000
9496368 Partial spacer for increasing self aligned contact process margins Emre Alptekin, Ravikumar Ramachandran, Reinaldo Vega 2016-11-15 $2,170,000
9472415 Directional chemical oxide etch technique Emre Alptekin, Sivananda K. Kanakasabapathy, Ahmet S. Ozcan, Cung D. Tran 2016-10-18 $1,445,000
9397181 Diffusion-controlled oxygen depletion of semiconductor contact interface Emre Alptekin, Ahmet S. Ozcan, Kathryn T. Schonenberg, Cung D. Tran 2016-07-19 $4,161,000
9391175 Fin end spacer for preventing merger of raised active regions Emre Alptekin, Sameer H. Jain, Cung D. Tran, Reinaldo Vega 2016-07-12 $3,552,000
9368493 Method and structure to suppress FinFET heating Emre Alptekin, Cung D. Tran, Reinaldo Vega 2016-06-14 $2,204,000
9349836 Fin end spacer for preventing merger of raised active regions Emre Alptekin, Sameer H. Jain, Cung D. Tran, Reinaldo Vega 2016-05-24 $3,942,000
9331166 Selective dielectric spacer deposition for exposing sidewalls of a finFET Emre Alptekin, Sameer H. Jain, Cung D. Tran, Reinaldo Vega 2016-05-03 $3,695,000
9324709 Self-aligned gate contact structure Veeraraghavan S. Basker, Kangguo Cheng, Ali Khakifirooz, Raghavasimhan Sreenivasan 2016-04-26 $1,566,000
9318323 Semiconductor devices with graphene nanoribbons Emre Alptekin, Reinaldo Vega 2016-04-19 $757,000