John Foster — 23 Patents at Intermolecular

John Foster has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Intermolecular. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in November 2025. John Foster ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list John Foster in Mountain View, CA, US.

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Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12473121	Can wiper	Lary C. Smith	2025-11-18
9831100	Solution based etching of titanium carbide and titanium nitride structures	Sean Xuan Lin, Muthumanickam Sankarapandian, Ruilong Xie	2017-11-28	$715,000
9330937	Etching of semiconductor structures that include titanium-based layers	Gregory Nowling	2016-05-03	$352,000
8945952	High productivity combinatorial workflow for post gate etch clean development	—	2015-02-03	$410,000
8859431	Process to remove Ni and Pt residues for NiPtSi application using chlorine gas	Anh Duong, Olov Karlsson, James Mavrinac, Usha Raghuram	2014-10-14	$181,000
8854067	Circular transmission line methods compatible with combinatorial processing of semiconductors	Amol Joshi, Charlene Chen, Zhendong Hong, Olov Karlsson, Bei Li +5 more	2014-10-07
8735302	High productivity combinatorial oxide terracing and PVD/ALD metal deposition combined with lithography for gate work function extraction	Amol Joshi, Zhendong Hong, Olov Karlsson, Bei Li, Usha Raghuram	2014-05-27	$444,000
8716146	Low temperature etching of silicon nitride structures using phosphoric acid solutions	Gregory Nowling	2014-05-06	$284,000
8603837	High productivity combinatorial workflow for post gate etch clean development	—	2013-12-10	$1,010,000
8575016	Method for etching gate stack	Kim Van Berkel	2013-11-05	$284,000
8513117	Process to remove Ni and Pt residues for NiPtSi applications	Anh Duong, Sean Barstow, Clemens Fitz, Olov Karlsson, Bei Li +1 more	2013-08-20
8466058	Process to remove Ni and Pt residues for NiPtSi applications using chlorine gas	Anh Duong, Olov Karlsson, James Mavrinac, Usha Raghuram	2013-06-18	$496,000
8314022	Method for etching gate stack	Kim Van Berkel	2012-11-20	$3,548,000
8298505	Process for gas sweetening	Suling Zhai, Stephen H. Ward, Malcolm Harrison	2012-10-30
8144050	Removing clutter from radar cross section measurements using spectral tagging	Douglas P. Morgan, Scot J. McLean	2012-03-27	$14,795,000
7916067	Removing clutter from radar cross section measurements using spectral tagging	Douglas P. Morgan, Scot J. McLean	2011-03-29	$12,773,000
7597198	Novelty kit	—	2009-10-06
7565820	Methods and apparatus for forming heat treated optical fiber	Hazel Benton Matthews, III	2009-07-28	$58,195,000
6306707	Double layer hard mask process to improve oxide quality for non-volatile flash memory products	Yue-Song He, Jiahua Huang	2001-10-23	$2,669,000
5692360	System and method for packaging products	Gregory E. McDonald, Glenn W. Killinger, Cuong Manh Ta, Charles C. Zende, Andrew W. Moehlenbrock	1997-12-02	$14,376,000
5551215	Bag and method of opening a bag with partial offset lip	Gregory E. McDonald, Andrew W. Moehlenbrock	1996-09-03	$16,050,000
5137541	Polishing compounds and methods	—	1992-08-11
4704949	Piston	—	1987-11-10

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