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Curtis W. Ward — 18 Patents

Intel: 18 patents #2,313 of 30,777Top 8%
Hillsboro, OR: #246 of 2,365 inventorsTop 15%
Oregon: #2,430 of 28,073 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Curtis W. Ward has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intel. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in September 2025. Curtis W. Ward ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Curtis W. Ward in Hillsboro, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2018 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2021.peak 42018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 4 patents20212022: 1 patents20222023: 4 patents20232024: 4 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12426230 Fin cut and fin trim isolation for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Tahir Ghani, Byron Ho, Michael L. Hattendorf, Christopher P. Auth 2025-09-23
12218052 Advanced lithography and self-assembled devices Richard E. Schenker, Robert L. Bristol, Kevin Lin, Florian Gstrein, James M. Blackwell +6 more 2025-02-04
12080639 Contact over active gate structures with metal oxide layers to inhibit shorting Rami Hourani, Manish Chandhok, Richard E. Schenker, Florian Gstrein, Leonard P. GULER +4 more 2024-09-03 $14,017,000
12016170 Fin cut and fin trim isolation for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Tahir Ghani, Byron Ho, Michael L. Hattendorf, Christopher P. Auth 2024-06-18 $26,452,000
11972979 1D vertical edge blocking (VEB) via and plug Leonard P. GULER, Michael K. Harper, Suzanne S. Rich, Charles H. Wallace, Richard E. Schenker +4 more 2024-04-30 $26,151,000
11881520 Fin patterning for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Heidi M. Meyer, Michael L. Hattendorf, Christopher P. Auth 2024-01-23 $52,361,000
11854787 Advanced lithography and self-assembled devices Richard E. Schenker, Robert L. Bristol, Kevin Lin, Florian Gstrein, James M. Blackwell +6 more 2023-12-26 $39,948,000
11721580 1D vertical edge blocking (VEB) via and plug Leonard P. GULER, Michael K. Harper, Suzanne S. Rich, Charles H. Wallace, Richard E. Schenker +4 more 2023-08-08 $22,376,000
11646359 Fin cut and fin trim isolation for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Tahir Ghani, Byron Ho, Michael L. Hattendorf, Christopher P. Auth 2023-05-09 $19,706,000
11640985 Trench isolation for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Michael L. Hattendorf, Heidi M. Meyer, Tahir Ghani, Christopher P. Auth 2023-05-02 $21,235,000
11373950 Advanced lithography and self-assembled devices Richard E. Schenker, Robert L. Bristol, Kevin Lin, Florian Gstrein, James M. Blackwell +6 more 2022-06-28 $15,065,000
11145541 Conductive via and metal line end fabrication and structures resulting therefrom Charles H. Wallace, Reken Patel, Hyunsoo Park, Mohit K. HARAN, Debashish Basu +1 more 2021-10-12 $32,982,000
11063133 Fin cut and fin trim isolation for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Tahir Ghani, Byron Ho, Michael L. Hattendorf, Christopher P. Auth 2021-07-13 $34,958,000
10930753 Trench isolation for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Michael L. Hattendorf, Heidi M. Meyer, Tahir Ghani, Christopher P. Auth 2021-02-23 $31,062,000
10892223 Advanced lithography and self-assembled devices Richard E. Schenker, Robert L. Bristol, Kevin Lin, Florian Gstrein, James M. Blackwell +6 more 2021-01-12 $55,416,000
10777656 Fin cut and fin trim isolation for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Tahir Ghani, Byron Ho, Michael L. Hattendorf, Christopher P. Auth 2020-09-15 $34,212,000
10460993 Fin cut and fin trim isolation for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Tahir Ghani, Byron Ho, Michael L. Hattendorf, Christopher P. Auth 2019-10-29 $25,165,000
9893167 Integration methods to fabricate internal spacers for nanowire devices Seiyon Kim, Daniel A. Simon, Kelin J. Kuhn 2018-02-13 $15,494,000