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Benjamin D. Painter — 12 Patents

SYSynopsys: 12 patents #67 of 2,302Top 3%
Portland, OR: #1,498 of 9,213 inventorsTop 20%
Oregon: #3,634 of 28,073 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Benjamin D. Painter has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Synopsys. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in June 2019. Benjamin D. Painter ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Benjamin D. Painter in Portland, OR, US.

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Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10318697 Sub-resolution assist feature implementation for shot generation Michael L. Rieger, Thomas Christopher Cecil 2019-06-11 $10,916,000
9471746 Sub-resolution assist feature implementation with shot optimization Michael L. Rieger, Thomas Christopher Cecil 2016-10-18 $6,230,000
9170481 Sub-resolution assist feature implementation using shot optimization Michael L. Rieger, Thomas Christopher Cecil 2015-10-27 $3,619,000
8826193 Detection and removal of self-aligned double patterning artifacts Yuelin Du, Gerard Luk-Pat, Alexander Miloslavsky, James P. Shiely, Hua Song 2014-09-02 $4,484,000
8296688 Evaluating the quality of an assist feature placement based on a focus-sensitive cost-covariance field Levi D. Barnes, Qiliang Yan, Yongfa Fan, Jianliang Li, Amyn A. Poonawala 2012-10-23 $3,027,000
8010913 Model-based assist feature placement using inverse imaging approach Amyn A. Poonawala, Levi D. Barnes 2011-08-30 $12,692,000
7954071 Assist feature placement based on a focus-sensitive cost-covariance field Levi D. Barnes, Qiliang Yan, Yongfa Fan, Jianliang Li, Amyn A. Poonawala 2011-05-31 $13,557,000
7475382 Method and apparatus for determining an improved assist feature configuration in a mask layout Lawrence S. Melvin, III 2009-01-06 $24,722,000
7421678 Assist feature placement using a process-sensitivity model Levi D. Barnes, Lawrence S. Melvin, III 2008-09-02 $10,577,000
7320119 Method and apparatus for identifying a problem edge in a mask layout using an edge-detecting process-sensitivity model Lawrence S. Melvin, III, James P. Shiely, Qiliang Yan 2008-01-15 $23,319,000
7315999 Method and apparatus for identifying assist feature placement problems Lawrence S. Melvin, III 2008-01-01
7260812 Method and apparatus for expediting convergence in model-based OPC Lawrence S. Melvin, III 2007-08-21 $3,063,000