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Kurt A. Olson — 9 Patents

TETegal: 8 patents #7 of 53Top 15%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Sebastopol, CA: #30 of 246 inventorsTop 15%
California: #67,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #535,341 of 4,157,543Top 15%
9 Patents All Time
Kurt A. Olson has been granted 9 US patents while listed as an inventor at Tegal. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in October 2008. Kurt A. Olson ranks #535,341 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 12.9%). Patent records list Kurt A. Olson in Sebastopol, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2008Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2002.peak 21996: 1 patents19962000: 1 patents20002002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2008

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–9 of 9 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7439188 Reactor with heated and textured electrodes and surfaces Stephen P. DeOrnellas, Leslie G. Jerde 2008-10-21 $359,000
7223699 Plasma etch reactor and method Stephen P. DeOrnellas, Leslie G. Jerde, Alferd Cofer, Robert C. Vail 2007-05-29 $453,000
6905969 Plasma etch reactor and method Stephen P. DeOrnellas, Leslie G. Jerde, Alferd Cofer, Robert C. Vail 2005-06-14 $1,116,000
6774046 Method for minimizing the critical dimension growth of a feature on a semiconductor wafer Stephen P. DeOrnellas, Alferd Cofer, Leslie G. Jerde, Paritosh Rajora 2004-08-10 $1,193,000
6620335 Plasma etch reactor and method Stephen P. DeOrnellas, Leslie G. Jerde, Alferd Cofer, Robert C. Vail 2003-09-16 $837,000
6500314 Plasma etch reactor and method Stephen P. DeOrnellas, Leslie G. Jerde, Alferd Cofer, Robert C. Vail 2002-12-31 $236,000
6354240 Plasma etch reactor having a plurality of magnets Stephen P. DeOrnellas, Leslie G. Jerde, Alferd Cofer, Robert C. Vail 2002-03-12 $363,000
6046116 Method for minimizing the critical dimension growth of a feature on a semiconductor wafer Stephen P. DeOrnellas, Alfred Cofer, Leslie G. Jerde, Paritosh Rajora 2000-04-04 $2,621,000
5548470 Characterization, modeling, and design of an electrostatic chuck with improved wafer temperature uniformity Anwar Husain, David E. Kotecki, Stephan Lassig, Anthony J. Ricci 1996-08-20 $9,974,000