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Mark D. Smith — 27 Patents

Kla-Tencor: 27 patents #70 of 2,049Top 4%
San Jose, CA: #2,317 of 32,062 inventorsTop 8%
California: #19,967 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #142,059 of 4,157,543Top 4%
27 Patents All Time
Mark D. Smith has been granted 27 US patents while listed as an inventor at Kla-Tencor. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in January 2025. Mark D. Smith ranks #142,059 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.4%). Patent records list Mark D. Smith in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2019.peak 62009: 1 patents20092011: 1 patents2013: 2 patents20132017: 2 patents2018: 5 patents20182019: 6 patents2020: 2 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 3 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 27 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12197137 System and method for determining post bonding overlay Franz Zach, Xiaomeng Shen, Jason Saito, David Owen 2025-01-14
12164277 System and method for mitigating overlay distortion patterns caused by a wafer bonding tool Franz Zach, Roel Gronheid 2024-12-10 $188,249,000
12117347 Metrology target design for tilted device designs Myungjun Lee, Michael Adel, Eran Amit, Daniel Kandel 2024-10-15 $650,175,000
11829077 System and method for determining post bonding overlay Franz Zach, Xiaomeng Shen, Jason Saito, David Owen 2023-11-28 $159,060,000
11782411 System and method for mitigating overlay distortion patterns caused by a wafer bonding tool Franz Zach, Roel Gronheid 2023-10-10 $126,057,000
11682570 Process-induced displacement characterization during semiconductor production Pradeep Vukkadala, Ady Levy, Prasanna Dighe, Dieter Mueller 2023-06-20 $468,350,000
11221561 System and method for wafer-by-wafer overlay feedforward and lot-to-lot feedback control Onur N. Demirer, Fatima Anis 2022-01-11 $171,362,000
11164768 Process-induced displacement characterization during semiconductor production Pradeep Vukkadala, Ady Levy, Prasanna Dighe, Dieter Mueller 2021-11-02 $252,368,000
10685165 Metrology using overlay and yield critical patterns Daniel Kandel, Mark Wagner, Eran Amit, Myungjun Lee 2020-06-16
10579768 Process compatibility improvement by fill factor modulation Vladimir Levinski, Eitan Hajaj, Tal Itzkovich, Sharon Aharon, Michael Adel +5 more 2020-03-03
10496781 Metrology recipe generation using predicted metrology images Chao Fang, Brian Duffy 2019-12-03 $155,666,000
10475712 System and method for process-induced distortion prediction during wafer deposition Ady Levy 2019-11-12
10444639 Layer-to-layer feedforward overlay control with alignment corrections Onur N. Demirer, William Pierson, Jeremy Nabeth, Miguel Garcia-Medina, Lipkong Yap 2019-10-15
10340165 Systems and methods for automated multi-zone detection and modeling Jeremy Nabeth, Onur N. Demirer, Ramkumar Karur-Shanmugam, Choon (George) Hoong Hoo, Christian Sparka +4 more 2019-07-02
10216096 Process-sensitive metrology systems and methods Myungjun Lee, Sanjay Kapasi, Stilian Ivanov Pandev, Dzmitry Sanko, Pradeep Subrahmanyan +1 more 2019-02-26
10209627 Systems and methods for focus-sensitive metrology targets Myungjun Lee, Stewart Robertson, Pradeep Subrahmanyan 2019-02-19
10095122 Systems and methods for fabricating metrology targets with sub-resolution features Myungjun Lee 2018-10-09
10030965 Model-based hot spot monitoring Stilian Ivanov Pandev, Sanjay Kapasi, Ady Levy 2018-07-24
10024654 Method and system for determining in-plane distortions in a substrate Jose Solomon, Stuart Sherwin, Walter D. Mieher, Ady Levy 2018-07-17
10018919 System and method for fabricating metrology targets oriented with an angle rotated with respect to device features Myungjun Lee 2018-07-10
10007191 Method for computer modeling and simulation of negative-tone-developable photoresists John Biafore, John S. Graves, David Blankenship, Alessandro Vaglio Pret 2018-06-26
9733576 Model for accurate photoresist profile prediction John Biafore 2017-08-15
9679116 Photoresist simulation John Biafore, John S. Graves, David Blankenship 2017-06-13
8589827 Photoresist simulation John Biafore, John S. Graves, David Blankenship 2013-11-19 $51,759,000
8428762 Spin coating modeling John S. Graves, Stewart Robertson 2013-04-23 $25,357,000