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Michael E. Thomas — 64 Patents

NSNational Semiconductor: 38 patents #17 of 2,238Top 1%
FRFramdrive: 6 patents #1 of 1Top 100%
FIFairchild Camera & Instrument: 5 patents #12 of 173Top 7%
FSFairchild Semiconductor: 4 patents #161 of 715Top 25%
NSNovellus Systems: 2 patents #345 of 780Top 45%
Dow Corning: 1 patents #971 of 1,768Top 55%
UFUS Air Force: 1 patents #6,232 of 16,312Top 40%
GLGeneral Foods Limited: 1 patents #297 of 659Top 50%
PAPetri Ag: 1 patents #11 of 55Top 20%
TATakata-Petri Ag: 1 patents #107 of 249Top 45%
Cupertino, CA: #188 of 6,989 inventorsTop 3%
California: #5,241 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #34,494 of 4,157,543Top 1%
64 Patents All Time
Michael E. Thomas has been granted 64 US patents while listed as an inventor at National Semiconductor. The first was granted in 1984 and the most recent in July 2020. Michael E. Thomas ranks #34,494 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.83%). Patent records list Michael E. Thomas in Cupertino, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 64 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10702031 Panel bracelet with replaceable inserted panels 2020-07-07
8786276 Construction element made of a ferromagnetic shape memory material and use thereof Sebastian Faehler, Oleg Heczko, Joerg Buschbeck, Jeffrey McCord 2014-07-22
6593615 Dielectric gap fill process that effectively reduces capacitance between narrow metal lines using HDP-CVD Jen Shu 2003-07-15 $17,285,000
6590265 Semiconductor device with sidewall spacers having minimized area contacts 2003-07-08 $5,344,000
6548323 Method of preparing light-sensitive integrated circuits for packaging Jeffrey Robert Perry, Robert A. Sabsowitz, Reda R. Razouk, Aaron Grant Simmons 2003-04-15 $7,569,000
6540258 Device for influencing the deployment of a gas bag in an airbag module 2003-04-01
6509283 Thermal oxidation method utilizing atomic oxygen to reduce dangling bonds in silicon dioxide grown on silicon 2003-01-21 $9,047,000
6383933 Method of using organic material to enhance STI planarization or other planarization processes Jen Shu, Prochy Sethna 2002-05-07 $9,771,000
6348421 Dielectric gap fill process that effectively reduces capacitance between narrow metal lines using HDP-CVD Jen Shu 2002-02-19 $16,349,000
6277726 Method for decreasing contact resistance of an electrode positioned inside a misaligned via for multilevel interconnects Vassili Kitch 2001-08-21 $14,248,000
6242354 Semiconductor device with self aligned contacts having integrated silicide stringer removal and method thereof 2001-06-05 $49,013,000
6193270 Arrangement for fastening a gas generator 2001-02-27
6103629 Self-aligned interconnect using high selectivity metal pillars and a via exclusion mask Vassili Kitch 2000-08-15 $20,787,000
6099639 Method for solid-state formation of diamond 2000-08-08 $22,069,000
6074929 Box isolation technique for integrated circuit structures 2000-06-13 $42,391,000
6046973 Integrated read/write head for ferroelectric optical media 2000-04-04
6028835 Integrated read/write head for ferroelectric optical storage 2000-02-22
6017585 High efficiency semiconductor wafer coating apparatus and method 2000-01-25 $135,877,000
6004878 Method for silicide stringer removal in the fabrication of semiconductor integrated circuits Brian J. Daniels 1999-12-21 $24,356,000
5904507 Programmable anti-fuses using laser writing 1999-05-18 $8,146,000
5783363 Method of performing charged-particle lithography 1998-07-21 $3,781,000
5748523 Integrated circuit magnetic memory element having a magnetizable member and at least two conductive winding Irfan Saadat 1998-05-05 $10,740,000
5713774 Method of making an integrated circuit vertical electronic grid device Irfan Saadat 1998-02-03 $23,001,000
5688724 Method of providing a dielectric structure for semiconductor devices Euisik Yoon, Ronald P. Kovacs 1997-11-18 $14,894,000
5679405 Method for preventing substrate backside deposition during a chemical vapor deposition operation Everhardus P. van de Van, Eliot K. Broadbent 1997-10-21