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David Y. Wang — 55 Patents

Kla-Tencor: 28 patents #67 of 2,049Top 4%
THTherma-Wave: 12 patents #8 of 60Top 15%
ExxonMobil: 2 patents #3,942 of 10,161Top 40%
ATAcard Technology: 1 patents #6 of 22Top 30%
XAXaqti,: 1 patents #6 of 10Top 60%
WUWashington University: 1 patents #704 of 1,596Top 45%
Eastman Kodak: 1 patents #4,972 of 8,114Top 65%
USUmax Data Systems: 1 patents #55 of 119Top 50%
Santa Clara, CA: #185 of 9,301 inventorsTop 2%
California: #6,830 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #45,454 of 4,157,543Top 2%
55 Patents All Time
David Y. Wang has been granted 55 US patents while listed as an inventor at Kla-Tencor. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in December 2024. David Y. Wang ranks #45,454 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.1%). Patent records list David Y. Wang in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2006.peak 51993: 1 patents19931996: 1 patents1999: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 3 patents2004: 3 patents20042005: 1 patents2006: 5 patents2007: 5 patents20072011: 1 patents2012: 2 patents2014: 3 patents20142015: 2 patents2016: 4 patents2017: 1 patents20172018: 4 patents2019: 3 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 4 patents2022: 2 patents2024: 4 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 55 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12164093 Reflective compact lens for magneto-optic Kerr effect metrology system Alex Zheng, Jun Wang, Chunxia Li, Changfei Yan, Rui Ni +7 more 2024-12-10
12013355 Methods and systems for compact, small spot size soft x-ray scatterometry Kerstin Purrucker, Michael Friedmann 2024-06-18 $237,465,000
11913874 Optical metrology tool equipped with modulated illumination sources Andrei V. Shchegrov, Lawrence D. Rotter, Andrei Veldman, Kevin Peterlinz, Gregory Brady +1 more 2024-02-27 $308,280,000
11906770 Monolithic optical retarder Shankar Krishnan 2024-02-20
11309202 Overlay metrology on bonded wafers Shankar Krishnan, Johannes D. de Veer 2022-04-19 $128,304,000
11231362 Multi-environment polarized infrared reflectometer for semiconductor metrology Guorong V. Zhuang, Shankar Krishnan, Xuefeng Liu, Mengmeng Ye, Dawei Hu 2022-01-25 $447,355,000
11137350 Mid-infrared spectroscopy for measurement of high aspect ratio structures Shankar Krishnan, Guorong V. Zhuang 2021-10-05 $383,357,000
11119050 Methods and systems for measurement of thick films and high aspect ratio structures Noam Sapiens, Shankar Krishnan, Alexander Buettner, Kerstin Purrucker, Kevin Peterlinz 2021-09-14 $65,482,000
11043239 Magneto-optic Kerr effect metrology systems Jun Wang, Yaolei Zheng, Chunxia Li, Changfei Yan, Lansheng Dong +7 more 2021-06-22 $382,382,000
10969328 Optical metrology tool equipped with modulated illumination sources Andrei V. Shchegrov, Lawrence D. Rotter, Andrei Veldman, Kevin Peterlinz, Gregory Brady +1 more 2021-04-06 $472,302,000
10801953 Semiconductor metrology based on hyperspectral imaging Alexander Buettner, Stilian Ivanov Pandev, Emanuel Saerchen, Andrei V. Shchegrov, Barry Blasenheim 2020-10-13
10804167 Methods and systems for co-located metrology Esen Salcin, Michael Friedmann, Derrick Shaughnessy, Andrei V. Shchegrov, Jonathan M. Madsen +1 more 2020-10-13
10690602 Methods and systems for measurement of thick films and high aspect ratio structures Noam Sapiens, Shankar Krishnan, Alexander Buettner, Kerstin Purrucker, Kevin Peterlinz 2020-06-23
10234763 Method of providing photopatterned functional surfaces Silas Owusu-Nkwantabisah, Roberta Dileo Benedict 2019-03-19 $708,000
10215693 Infrared spectroscopic reflectometer for measurement of high aspect ratio structures Shankar Krishnan 2019-02-26
10215688 Optical metrology tool equipped with modulated illumination sources Andrei V. Shchegrov, Lawrence D. Rotter, Andrei Veldman, Kevin Peterlinz, Gregory Brady +1 more 2019-02-26
9970863 Optical metrology with reduced focus error sensitivity Shankar Krishnan, Guorong V. Zhuang, Xuefeng Liu 2018-05-15
9921104 Simultaneous multi-angle spectroscopy Shankar Krishnan, Alexander Buettner, Kerstin Purrucker 2018-03-20
9921152 Systems and methods for extended infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry Shankar Krishnan 2018-03-20
9857292 Broadband and wide field angle compensator Lawrence D. Rotter, Klaus Flock, Muzammil Arain 2018-01-02
9740309 Finger-driven computer mouse 2017-08-22
9519093 Broadband and wide field angle compensator Lawrence D. Rotter, Klaus Flock, Muzammil Arain 2016-12-13
9400246 Optical metrology tool equipped with modulated illumination sources Andrei V. Shchegrov, Lawrence D. Rotter, Andrei Veldman, Kevin Peterlinz, Gregory Brady +1 more 2016-07-26
9310290 Multiple angles of incidence semiconductor metrology systems and methods Klaus Flock, Lawrence D. Rotter, Shankar Krishnan, Johannes D. de Veer, Catalin Filip +3 more 2016-04-12
9228943 Dynamically adjustable semiconductor metrology system Guorong V. Zhuang, Johannes D. de Veer, Kevin Peterlinz, Shankar Krishnan 2016-01-05