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Dan Wack — 38 Patents

Kla-Tencor: 38 patents #32 of 2,049Top 2%
Los Altos, CA: #295 of 3,651 inventorsTop 9%
California: #12,412 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #84,675 of 4,157,543Top 3%
38 Patents All Time
Dan Wack has been granted 38 US patents. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in May 2022. Dan Wack ranks #84,675 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Dan Wack in Los Altos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2022Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2004.peak 72003: 1 patents20032004: 7 patents2005: 7 patents20052006: 5 patents2007: 4 patents20072008: 5 patents2010: 2 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 1 patents2017: 1 patents20172022: 1 patents2022

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 38 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11333487 Common path mode fiber tip diffraction interferometer for wavefront measurement Haifeng Huang, Rui-fang Shi, Robert Kestner 2022-05-17 $132,895,000
9702693 Apparatus for measuring overlay errors Mark Ghinovker, Michael Adel, Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy 2017-07-11
8502979 Methods and systems for determining a critical dimension and overlay of a specimen Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Rodney Smedt, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad +2 more 2013-08-06 $16,973,000
8330281 Overlay marks, methods of overlay mark design and methods of overlay measurements Mark Ghinovker, Michael Adel, Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy 2012-12-11 $19,789,000
8179530 Methods and systems for determining a critical dimension and overlay of a specimen Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Rodney Smedt, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad +2 more 2012-05-15 $20,701,000
7933016 Apparatus and methods for detecting overlay errors using scatterometry Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy, Boris Golovanevsky, Michael Friedmann, Ian Smith +10 more 2011-04-26 $13,337,000
7879627 Overlay marks and methods of manufacturing such marks Mark Ghinovker, Michael Adel, Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy 2011-02-01 $20,148,000
7751046 Methods and systems for determining a critical dimension and overlay of a specimen Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Rodney Smedt, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad +2 more 2010-07-06 $26,708,000
7663753 Apparatus and methods for detecting overlay errors using scatterometry Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy, Boris Golovanevsky, Michael Friedmann, Ian Smith +10 more 2010-02-16 $12,327,000
7463369 Systems and methods for measuring one or more characteristics of patterned features on a specimen Haiming Wang, Kenneth P. Gross 2008-12-09 $10,943,000
7460981 Methods and systems for determining a presence of macro and micro defects on a specimen Gary Bultman, Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Mehrdad Nikoonahad, John Fielden 2008-12-02 $26,901,000
7349090 Methods and systems for determining a property of a specimen prior to, during, or subsequent to lithography Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad, John Fielden 2008-03-25 $20,655,000
7317531 Apparatus and methods for detecting overlay errors using scatterometry Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy, Boris Golovanesky, Michael Friedmann, Ian Smith +10 more 2008-01-08 $13,879,000
7317824 Overlay marks, methods of overlay mark design and methods of overlay measurements Mark Ghinovker, Michael Adel, Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy 2008-01-08 $13,879,000
7301634 Apparatus and methods for detecting overlay errors using scatterometry Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy, Boris Golovanesky, Michael Friedmann, Ian Smith +7 more 2007-11-27 $9,283,000
7274814 Overlay marks, methods of overlay mark design and methods of overlay measurements Mark Ghinovker, Michael Adel, Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy 2007-09-25 $19,077,000
7196782 Methods and systems for determining a thin film characteristic and an electrical property of a specimen John Fielden, Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad 2007-03-27 $36,715,000
7181057 Overlay marks, methods of overlay mark design and methods of overlay measurements Michael Adel, Mark Ghinovker, Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy 2007-02-20 $18,240,000
7139083 Methods and systems for determining a composition and a thickness of a specimen John Fielden, Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad 2006-11-21 $23,110,000
7130029 Methods and systems for determining an adhesion characteristic and a thickness of a specimen Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad, John Fielden 2006-10-31 $15,704,000
7106425 Methods and systems for determining a presence of defects and a thin film characteristic of a specimen Gary Bultman, Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Mehrdad Nikoonahad, John Fielden 2006-09-12 $14,851,000
7068833 Overlay marks, methods of overlay mark design and methods of overlay measurements Mark Ghinovker, Michael Adel, Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy 2006-06-27 $12,740,000
7006235 Methods and systems for determining overlay and flatness of a specimen Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Mehrdad Nikoonahad, Gary Bultman, John Fielden 2006-02-28 $16,066,000
6950196 Methods and systems for determining a thickness of a structure on a specimen and at least one additional property of the specimen John Fielden, Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad 2005-09-27 $28,686,000
6946394 Methods and systems for determining a characteristic of a layer formed on a specimen by a deposition process John Fielden, Ady Levy, Kyle Brown, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad 2005-09-20 $14,604,000