JH

John D. Herb

SP Speedfam-Ipec: 13 patents #3 of 143Top 3%
NS Novellus Systems: 2 patents #345 of 780Top 45%
Overall (All Time): #326,764 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7229339 CMP apparatus and method John F. Stumpf, Franklin D. Root, Brian Severson, David Marquardt, James J. Crawford +6 more 2007-06-12
7140956 Work piece carrier with adjustable pressure zones and barriers and a method of planarizing a work piece Nikolay Korovin, Stephen C. Schultz, James L. Farmer 2006-11-28
7040957 Platen and manifold for polishing workpieces Stephen C. Schultz, Dave Marquardt 2006-05-09
7025664 Work piece carrier with adjustable pressure zones and barriers and a method of planarizing a work piece Nikolay Korovin, Stephen C. Schultz, James L. Farmer 2006-04-11
7014541 Work piece carrier with adjustable pressure zones and barriers and a method of planarizing a work piece Nikolay Korovin, Stephen C. Schultz, James L. Farmer 2006-03-21
6913528 Low amplitude, high speed polisher and method Stephen C. Schulz 2005-07-05
6878039 Polishing pad window for a chemical-mechanical polishing tool Charles C. Yang, Stephen C. Schultz 2005-04-12
6659850 Work piece carrier with adjustable pressure zones and barriers and a method of planarizing a work piece Nikolay Korovin, Stephen C. Schultz, James L. Farmer 2003-12-09
6612903 Workpiece carrier with adjustable pressure zones and barriers Nikolay Korovin, Stephen C. Schultz, James L. Farmer 2003-09-02
6599175 Apparatus for distributing a fluid through a polishing pad Stephen C. Schultz 2003-07-29
6568991 Method and apparatus for sensing a wafer in a carrier Ned Teeny, Stephen C. Schultz 2003-05-27
6540592 Carrier head with reduced moment wear ring Stephen C. Schultz, Timothy Dyer 2003-04-01
6447379 Carrier including a multi-volume diaphragm for polishing a semiconductor wafer and a method therefor Robert D. Gromko, Stephen C. Schultz, James Lee, Junedong Lee 2002-09-10
6390905 Workpiece carrier with adjustable pressure zones and barriers Nikolay Korovin, Stephen C. Schultz, James L. Farmer 2002-05-21
6336853 Carrier having pistons for distributing a pressing force on the back surface of a workpiece Stephen C. Schultz, Nikolay Korovin 2002-01-08