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Ady Levy — 85 Patents

Kla-Tencor: 85 patents #6 of 2,049Top 1%
Sunnyvale, CA: #128 of 14,302 inventorsTop 1%
California: #3,091 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #20,018 of 4,157,543Top 1%
85 Patents All Time
Ady Levy has been granted 85 US patents. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in June 2023. Ady Levy ranks #20,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.48%). Patent records list Ady Levy in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2002 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 14 patents in 2007.peak 142002: 1 patents20022003: 1 patents2004: 8 patents20042005: 8 patents2006: 6 patents20062007: 14 patents2008: 9 patents20082009: 1 patents2010: 9 patents20102011: 6 patents2012: 2 patents20122013: 4 patents2015: 1 patents20152017: 3 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 5 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 85 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11682570 Process-induced displacement characterization during semiconductor production Pradeep Vukkadala, Mark D. Smith, Prasanna Dighe, Dieter Mueller 2023-06-20 $468,350,000
11360398 System and method for tilt calculation based on overlay metrology measurements Roie Volkovich, Paul MacDonald, Jincheng Pei, Jinyan Song, Amnon Manassen 2022-06-14 $72,328,000
11164768 Process-induced displacement characterization during semiconductor production Pradeep Vukkadala, Mark D. Smith, Prasanna Dighe, Dieter Mueller 2021-11-02 $252,368,000
10475712 System and method for process-induced distortion prediction during wafer deposition Mark D. Smith 2019-11-12
10466596 System and method for field-by-field overlay process control using measured and estimated field parameters Bill Pierson, Ramkumar Karur-Shanmugam, Chin-Chou Huang, John Robinson 2019-11-05
10451412 Apparatus and methods for detecting overlay errors using scatterometry Michael Adel, Walter D. Mieher, Ibrahim Abdulhalim, Michael Friedmann 2019-10-22
10409171 Overlay control with non-zero offset prediction Michael Adel, Amnon Manassen, William Pierson, Pradeep Subrahmanyan, Liran Yerushalmi +4 more 2019-09-10
10216096 Process-sensitive metrology systems and methods Myungjun Lee, Mark D. Smith, Sanjay Kapasi, Stilian Ivanov Pandev, Dzmitry Sanko +1 more 2019-02-26
10030965 Model-based hot spot monitoring Stilian Ivanov Pandev, Sanjay Kapasi, Mark D. Smith 2018-07-24
10024654 Method and system for determining in-plane distortions in a substrate Mark D. Smith, Jose Solomon, Stuart Sherwin, Walter D. Mieher 2018-07-17
9903711 Feed forward of metrology data in a metrology system Daniel Kandel, Michael Adel, Leonid Poslavsky, John Robinson, Tal Marciano +9 more 2018-02-27 $104,541,000
9875946 On-device metrology Andrei V. Shchegrov, Jonathan M. Madsen, Stilian Ivanov Pandev, Daniel Kandel, Michael Adel +1 more 2018-01-23
9846132 Small-angle scattering X-ray metrology systems and methods Michael S. Bakeman, Andrei V. Shchegrov, Guorong V. Zhuang, John J. Hench 2017-12-19
9702693 Apparatus for measuring overlay errors Mark Ghinovker, Michael Adel, Walter D. Mieher, Dan Wack 2017-07-11
9576861 Method and system for universal target based inspection and metrology Allen Park, Ellis Chang, Michael Adel, Kris Bhaskar, Amir Widmann +2 more 2017-02-21
9222771 Acquisition of information for a construction site Eliezer Rosengaus, Kris Bhaskar 2015-12-29
8604447 Solar metrology methods and apparatus Scott A. Young, Guoheng Zhao, Marco Guevremont, Neeraj Khanna 2013-12-10 $16,118,000
8502979 Methods and systems for determining a critical dimension and overlay of a specimen Kyle Brown, Rodney Smedt, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad, Dan Wack +2 more 2013-08-06 $16,973,000
8436554 LED solar illuminator Guoheng Zhao, Alex Salnik, Mehdi Vaez-Iravani, Lena Nicolaides, Samuel Ngai 2013-05-07 $49,115,000
8415961 Measuring sheet resistance and other properties of a semiconductor Guoheng Zhao, Alex Salnik, Lena Nicolaides 2013-04-09 $24,090,000
8330281 Overlay marks, methods of overlay mark design and methods of overlay measurements Mark Ghinovker, Michael Adel, Walter D. Mieher, Dan Wack 2012-12-11 $19,789,000
8179530 Methods and systems for determining a critical dimension and overlay of a specimen Kyle Brown, Rodney Smedt, Gary Bultman, Mehrdad Nikoonahad, Dan Wack +2 more 2012-05-15 $20,701,000
8023110 Priori crack detection in solar photovoltaic wafers by detecting bending at edges of wafers Samuel Ngai 2011-09-20 $38,542,000
7989729 Detecting and repairing defects of photovoltaic devices Guoheng Zhao, George H. Zapalac, Jr., Samuel Ngai, Mehdi Vaez-Iravani 2011-08-02 $37,619,000
7951672 Measurement and control of strained devices Daniel Wack, John Fielden 2011-05-31 $20,554,000