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David G. Halley — 33 Patents

STStrasbaugh: 25 patents #1 of 32Top 4%
WNWeyerhaeuser Nr: 3 patents #131 of 578Top 25%
WLW. L. Gore & Associates (Uk) Limited: 1 patents #4 of 19Top 25%
WGW.L. Gore & Associates Gmbh: 1 patents #668 of 1,175Top 60%
Lam Research: 1 patents #1,379 of 2,128Top 65%
Renton, WA: #30 of 1,385 inventorsTop 3%
Washington: #2,241 of 76,902 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #105,480 of 4,157,543Top 3%
33 Patents All Time
David G. Halley has been granted 33 US patents while listed as an inventor at Strasbaugh. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in August 2006. David G. Halley ranks #105,480 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.5%). Patent records list David G. Halley in Renton, WA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2006Bar chart with a peak of 10 patents in 2003.peak 101989: 1 patents19891990: 2 patents19901994: 1 patents19941995: 1 patents19952001: 1 patents20012002: 6 patents20022003: 10 patents20032004: 3 patents20042005: 6 patents20052006: 2 patents2006

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 33 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7083497 Polishing pad with built-in optical sensor Gregory Barbour, Ben Smedley, Stephen H. Wolf 2006-08-01
6986701 Polishing pad with built-in optical sensor Gregory Barbour, Ben Smedley, Stephen H. Wolf 2006-01-17
6976901 In situ feature height measurement Greg Barbour 2005-12-20
6945856 Subaperture chemical mechanical planarization with polishing pad conditioning John M. Boyd, Michael S. Lacy 2005-09-20
6921719 Method of preparing whole semiconductor wafer for analysis Allan Paterson 2005-07-26
6887133 Pad support method for chemical mechanical planarization 2005-05-03 $240,000
6885206 Device for supporting thin semiconductor wafers 2005-04-26 $122,000
6855030 Modular method for chemical mechanical planarization 2005-02-15 $235,000
6808443 Projected gimbal point drive 2004-10-26 $9,361,000
6739945 Polishing pad with built-in optical sensor Gregory Barbour, Ben Smedley, Stephen H. Wolf 2004-05-25 $365,000
6692339 Combined chemical mechanical planarization and cleaning 2004-02-17 $777,000
6629874 Feature height measurement during CMP 2003-10-07 $975,000
6602121 Pad support apparatus for chemical mechanical planarization 2003-08-05 $1,022,000
6551179 Hard polishing pad for chemical mechanical planarization 2003-04-22 $1,327,000
6547651 Subaperture chemical mechanical planarization with polishing pad conditioning John M. Boyd, Michael S. Lacy 2003-04-15 $1,302,000
6527621 Pad retrieval apparatus for chemical mechanical planarization 2003-03-04 $1,293,000
6520843 High planarity chemical mechanical planarization 2003-02-18 $1,205,000
6517419 Shaping polishing pad for small head chemical mechanical planarization 2003-02-11 $1,248,000
6514129 Multi-action chemical mechanical planarization device and method 2003-02-04 $632,000
6514121 Polishing chemical delivery for small head chemical mechanical planarization 2003-02-04 $632,000
6511368 Spherical drive assembly for chemical mechanical planarization 2003-01-28 $1,233,000
6495463 Method for chemical mechanical polishing 2002-12-17 $1,270,000
6464574 Pad quick release device for chemical mechanical planarization 2002-10-15 $1,184,000
6450860 Pad transfer apparatus for chemical mechanical planarization 2002-09-17 $1,198,000
6379235 Wafer support for chemical mechanical planarization 2002-04-30