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Christopher Hess — 132 Patents

PSPdf Solutions: 111 patents #1 of 143Top 1%
ATAction Target: 5 patents #9 of 46Top 20%
OOOomble: 5 patents #2 of 2Top 100%
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft: 4 patents #3,516 of 22,248Top 20%
Amazon: 4 patents #4,091 of 19,158Top 25%
PWPendragon Wireless: 2 patents #2 of 4Top 50%
Belmont, CA: #3 of 1,494 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,314 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #8,181 of 4,157,543Top 1%
132 Patents All Time
Christopher Hess has been granted 132 US patents while listed as an inventor at Pdf Solutions. The first was granted in 2002 and the most recent in September 2025. Christopher Hess ranks #8,181 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.20%). Patent records list Christopher Hess in Belmont, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 132 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12429520 Systems, devices, and methods for performing a non-contact electrical measurement on a cell, non-contact electrical measurement cell vehicle, chip, wafer, die, or logic block Indranil De, Marian Mankos, Dennis Ciplickas, Jeremy Cheng, Balasubramanian Murugan +1 more 2025-09-30
12416663 Embedded system to characterize BTI degradation effects in MOSFETs Michele Quarantelli, Alberto Piadena, Tomasz Brozek, Larg Weiland, Sharad Saxena 2025-09-16
12038476 Systems, devices, and methods for performing a non-contact electrical measurement on a cell, non-contact electrical measurement cell vehicle, chip, wafer, die, or logic block Indranil De, Marian Mankos, Dennis Ciplickas, Jeremy Cheng, Balasubramanian Murugan +1 more 2024-07-16 $4,924,000
11668746 Systems, devices, and methods for performing a non-contact electrical measurement on a cell, non-contact electrical measurement cell vehicle, chip, wafer, die, or logic block Indranil De, Marian Mankos, Dennis Ciplickas, Jeremy Cheng, Balasubramanian Murugan +1 more 2023-06-06 $15,397,000
11585642 Software and sensor system for controlling range equipment Joseph Green, Cory Haflett, Tim Hakala, David Sharp, Devin Anderson 2023-02-21
11340293 Methods for performing a non-contact electrical measurement on a cell, chip, wafer, die, or logic block Indranil De, Marian Mankos, Dennis Ciplickas, Jeremy Cheng, Balasubramanian Murugan +1 more 2022-05-24 $8,593,000
11107804 IC with test structures and e-beam pads embedded within a contiguous standard cell area Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +21 more 2021-08-31 $7,464,000
11081477 IC with test structures and e-beam pads embedded within a contiguous standard cell area Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +21 more 2021-08-03 $3,055,000
11081476 IC with test structures and e-beam pads embedded within a contiguous standard cell area Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +21 more 2021-08-03 $3,055,000
11075194 IC with test structures and E-beam pads embedded within a contiguous standard cell area Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +21 more 2021-07-27 $7,372,000
11018126 IC with test structures and e-beam pads embedded within a contiguous standard cell area Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +21 more 2021-05-25 $6,881,000
10978438 IC with test structures and E-beam pads embedded within a contiguous standard cell area Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +21 more 2021-04-13 $7,247,000
10876821 Software and sensor system for controlling range equipment Joseph Green, Cory Haflett, Tim Hakala, David Sharp, Devin Anderson 2020-12-29
10854522 Method for processing a semiconductor wafer using non-contact electrical measurements indicative of at least one tip-to-side short or leakage, at least one corner short or leakage, and at least one via open or resistance, where such measurements are obtained from non-contact pads associated with respective tip-to-side short, corner short, and via open test areas Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +20 more 2020-12-01 $4,373,000
10777472 IC with test structures embedded within a contiguous standard cell area Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +20 more 2020-09-15 $3,826,000
10643735 Passive array test structure for cross-point memory characterization Tomasz Brozek, Rakesh Vallishayee, Meindert Martin Lunenborg, Hendrik Schneider, Yuan Yu +2 more 2020-05-05 $1,876,000
10593604 Process for making semiconductor dies, chips, and wafers using in-line measurements obtained from DOEs of NCEM-enabled fill cells Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +20 more 2020-03-17 $2,112,000
10539402 Target bracket Devin Anderson 2020-01-21
10488161 Walking target Devin Anderson 2019-11-26
10380305 Direct probing characterization vehicle for transistor, capacitor and resistor testing Yih-Yuh Doong, Sheng-Che Lin, Chia-Chi Lin, Hans Eisenmann, Cho-Si Huang +2 more 2019-08-13 $3,155,000
10290552 Methods for processing a semiconductor wafer using non-contact electrical measurements indicative of at least one tip-to-tip short or leakage, at least one via-chamfer short or leakage, and at least one corner short or leakage, where such measurements are obtained from cells with respective tip-to-tip short, via-chamfer short, and corner short test areas, using a charged particle-beam inspector with beam deflection to account for motion of the stage Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +20 more 2019-05-14 $3,728,000
10269786 Integrated circuit containing first and second DOEs of standard Cell Compatible, NCEM-enabled Fill Cells, with the first DOE including tip-to-side short configured fill cells, and the second DOE including corner short configured fill cells Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +20 more 2019-04-23 $2,173,000
10211111 Method for processing a semiconductor wafer using non-contact electrical measurements indicative of at least one tip-to-tip short or leakage, at least one tip-to-side short or leakage, and at least one corner short or leakage, where such measurements are obtained from non-contact pads associated with respective tip-to-tip short, tip-to-side sort, and corner short test areas Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +20 more 2019-02-19 $2,031,000
10211112 Method for processing a semiconductor wafer using non-contact electrical measurements indicative of at least one tip-to-tip short or leakage, at least one tip-to-side short or leakage, and at least one side-to-side short or leakage, where such measurements are obtained from non-contact pads associated with respective tip-to-tip short, tip-to-side short, and side-to-side short test areas Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +20 more 2019-02-19 $2,031,000
10199289 Method for processing a semiconductor wafer using non-contact electrical measurements indicative of at least one chamfer short or leakage, at least one corner short or leakage, and at least one via open or resistance, where such measurements are obtained from non-contact pads associated with respective chamfer short, corner short, and via open test areas Stephen Lam, Dennis Ciplickas, Tomasz Brozek, Jeremy Cheng, Simone Comensoli +20 more 2019-02-05 $355,000