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KLKla-Tencor: 34 patents #91 of 1,394Top 7%
CICandela Instruments: 13 patents #1 of 4Top 25%
LILumina Instruments: 10 patents #1 of 3Top 35%
ZIZeta Instruments: 7 patents #5 of 11Top 50%
IBM: 5 patents #18,733 of 70,183Top 30%
MAMaxtor: 1 patents #329 of 656Top 55%
Palo Alto, CA: #200 of 9,675 inventorsTop 3%
California: #4,195 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #27,799 of 4,157,543Top 1%
72 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 26–50 of 72 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7907269 Scattered light separation 2011-03-15
7714995 Material independent profiler 2010-05-11
7688435 Detecting and classifying surface features or defects by controlling the angle of the illumination plane of incidence with respect to the feature or defect 2010-03-30
7684032 Multi-wavelength system and method for detecting epitaxial layer defects 2010-03-23
7656519 Wafer edge inspection Rusmin Kudinar 2010-02-02
7630086 Surface finish roughness measurement Dave S. Oak, Tri Do, Ronny Soetarman, Vamsi Velidandla 2009-12-08
7554654 Surface characteristic analysis Romain Sappey, Tom Carr 2009-06-30
7532318 Wafer edge inspection Rusmin Kudinar, William R. Wheeler, Hung Phi Nguyen, Vamsi Velidandla, Anoop Somanchi +1 more 2009-05-12
7397621 Servo pattern characterization on magnetic disks Zhen Hou, Ronny Soetarman, Vamsi Velidandla 2008-07-08
7397553 Surface scanning Courosh Mehanian, Eliezer Rosengaus 2008-07-08
7362425 Wide spatial frequency topography and roughness measurement Mahendra Prabhu Ramachandran, Alireza Shahdoost Moghadam 2008-04-22
7345751 Material independent optical profilometer 2008-03-18
7295300 Detecting surface pits Laurie Bechtler, Vamsi Velidandla 2007-11-13
7286229 Detecting multi-domain states in perpendicular magnetic media 2007-10-23
7274445 Confocal scatterometer and method for single-sided detection of particles and defects on a transparent wafer or disk 2007-09-25
7218391 Material independent optical profilometer 2007-05-15
7190447 Double sided optical inspection of thin film disks or wafers 2007-03-13
7161669 Wafer edge inspection Vamsi Velidandla, Anoop Somanchi, Ronny Soetarman 2007-01-09
7161668 Wafer edge inspection Rusmin Kudinar, William R. Wheeler, Hung Phi Nguyen 2007-01-09
7161667 Wafer edge inspection Rusmin Kudinar, William R. Wheeler, Hung Phi Nguyen 2007-01-09
7123357 Method of detecting and classifying scratches and particles on thin film disks or wafers 2006-10-17
7113284 Material independent optical profilometer 2006-09-26
7110097 Combined high speed optical profilometer and ellipsometer Rusmin Kudinar 2006-09-19
7075630 Combined high speed optical profilometer and ellipsometer Rusmin Kudinar 2006-07-11
7075741 System and method for automatically determining magnetic eccentricity of a disk Ronny Soetarman, Vamsi Velidandla, Jimmy Chun-Chuen Leung 2006-07-11