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James B. McClain

MTMicell Technologies: 85 patents #1 of 45Top 3%
UHUniversity Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill: 4 patents #169 of 1,688Top 15%
BIBattelle Memorial Institute: 4 patents #438 of 2,462Top 20%
BGBha Group: 2 patents #22 of 58Top 40%
NUNorth Carolina State University: 1 patents #675 of 1,607Top 45%
University of California: 1 patents #8,022 of 18,278Top 45%
UCUniversity Of North Carolina: 1 patents #81 of 213Top 40%
Raleigh, NC: #34 of 6,378 inventorsTop 1%
North Carolina: #145 of 45,564 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #13,707 of 4,157,543Top 1%
103 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 51–75 of 103 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6782900 Methods and apparatus for cleaning and/or treating a substrate using CO2 James DeYoung, Michael E. Cole, Steven L. Worm, David Brainard 2004-08-31
6763840 Method and apparatus for cleaning substrates using liquid carbon dioxide Joseph M. DeSimone, James DeYoung 2004-07-20
6747179 Carbon dioxide-soluble polymers and swellable polymers for carbon dioxide applications Joseph M. DeSimone, Eva R. Birnbaum, Ruben G. Carbonell, Stephanie Crette, T. Mark McCleskey +3 more 2004-06-08
6743078 Methods, apparatus and slurries for chemical mechanical planarization Joseph M. DeSimone 2004-06-01
6734112 Divided pressure vessel apparatus for carbon dioxide based systems and methods of using same Steven L. Worm, James DeYoung, David Brainard 2004-05-11
6711773 Detergent injection methods for carbon dioxide cleaning apparatus James DeYoung, Timothy J. Romack 2004-03-30
6669785 Methods and compositions for etch cleaning microelectronic substrates in carbon dioxide James DeYoung, Stephen M. Gross, Mark I. Wagner 2003-12-30
6666050 Apparatus for conserving vapor in a carbon dioxide dry cleaning system David Brainard, Michael E. Cole, Steve Worm 2003-12-23
6641678 Methods for cleaning microelectronic structures with aqueous carbon dioxide systems James DeYoung, Stephen M. Gross, Joseph M. DeSimone 2003-11-04
6623355 Methods, apparatus and slurries for chemical mechanical planarization Joseph M. DeSimone 2003-09-23
6613157 Methods for removing particles from microelectronic structures James DeYoung, Stephen M. Gross 2003-09-02
6602351 Methods for the control of contaminants following carbon dioxide cleaning of microelectronic structures James DeYoung, Stephen M. Gross 2003-08-05
6596093 Methods for cleaning microelectronic structures with cyclical phase modulation James DeYoung, Michael E. Cole, David Brainard 2003-07-22
6589592 Methods of coating articles using a densified coating system Steve Worm 2003-07-08
6562146 Processes for cleaning and drying microelectronic structures using liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide James DeYoung, Stephen M. Gross 2003-05-13
6536059 Pumpless carbon dioxide dry cleaning system Michael E. Cole 2003-03-25
6506259 Carbon dioxide cleaning and separation systems Timothy J. Romack, Gina M. Stewart, Ramone D. Givens 2003-01-14
6499322 Detergent injection systems for carbon dioxide cleaning apparatus James DeYoung, Timothy J. Romack 2002-12-31
6491730 Pre-treatment methods and compositions for carbon dioxide dry cleaning David F. Cauble, James DeYoung, Bernadette Storey-Laubach 2002-12-10
6412312 Cleaning apparatus Gary Schrebe, Kenneth Grakauskas, Timothy J. Romack 2002-07-02
6413574 Deposition methods utilizing carbon dioxide separation systems Timothy J. Romack, Gina M. Stewart, Ramone D. Givens 2002-07-02
6397421 Methods and apparatus for conserving vapor and collecting liquid carbon dioxide for carbon dioxide dry cleaning David Brainard, Michael E. Cole, Steve Worm 2002-06-04
6351973 Internal motor drive liquid carbon dioxide agitation system Gary Schrebe 2002-03-05
6344243 Surface treatment Timothy J. Romack, James DeYoung 2002-02-05
6332342 Methods for carbon dioxide dry cleaning with integrated distribution Timothy J. Romack, James DeYoung, R. Bradley Lienhart, Joseph M. DeSimone, Kenneth L. Huggins 2001-12-25