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Michel Cote — 23 Patents

SYSynopsys: 17 patents #30 of 2,302Top 2%
NTNumerical Technologies: 6 patents #8 of 41Top 20%
San Jose, CA: #2,796 of 32,062 inventorsTop 9%
California: #24,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
Michel Cote has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Synopsys. The first was granted in 2004 and the most recent in March 2015. Michel Cote ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list Michel Cote in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2004 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2004.peak 52004: 5 patents20042005: 4 patents20052006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents20072008: 4 patents20082009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents20102012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8977989 Handling of flat data for phase processing including growing shapes within bins to identify clusters Christophe Pierrat 2015-03-10 $5,388,000
8566757 Layout of phase shifting photolithographic masks with refined shifter shapes Christophe Pierrat 2013-10-22 $7,203,000
8255840 Silicon tolerance specification using shapes as design intent markers Michael L. Rieger, Philippe Hurat, Robert M. Lugg, Jeff Mayhew 2012-08-28 $4,369,000
7739649 Design and layout of phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2010-06-15 $2,189,000
7629109 Exposure control for phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2009-12-08 $8,683,000
7500217 Handling of flat data for phase processing including growing shapes within bins to identify clusters Christophe Pierrat 2009-03-03 $10,903,000
7458045 Silicon tolerance specification using shapes as design intent markers Michael L. Rieger, Philippe Hurat, Robert M. Lugg, Jeff Mayhew 2008-11-25 $4,084,000
7435513 Design and layout of phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2008-10-14 $9,652,000
7422841 Exposure control for phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2008-09-09 $10,625,000
7348108 Design and layout of phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2008-03-25 $22,594,000
7312003 Design and layout of phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2007-12-25
7169515 Phase conflict resolution for photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2007-01-30 $17,663,000
7083879 Phase conflict resolution for photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2006-08-01 $5,907,000
7028285 Standard cell design incorporating phase information Christophe Pierrat 2006-04-11 $16,149,000
6981240 Cutting patterns for full phase shifting masks Christophe Pierrat 2005-12-27 $7,796,000
6978436 Design data format and hierarchy management for phase processing Christophe Pierrat 2005-12-20 $15,940,000
6861204 Design and layout of phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2005-03-01 $26,380,000
6852471 Exposure control for phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2005-02-08
6807663 Accelerated layout processing using OPC pre-processing Christophe Pierrat, Philippe Hurat 2004-10-19
6787271 Design and layout of phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2004-09-07
6745372 Method and apparatus for facilitating process-compliant layout optimization Philippe Hurat, Christophe Pierrat 2004-06-01
6721938 Optical proximity correction for phase shifting photolithographic masks Christophe Pierrat 2004-04-13
6681379 Phase shifting design and layout for static random access memory Christophe Pierrat 2004-01-20