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Duane E. Carter — 20 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 19 patents #665 of 12,488Top 6%
PHPhotodigm: 1 patents #14 of 21Top 70%
Plano, TX: #315 of 4,842 inventorsTop 7%
Texas: #6,926 of 125,132 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Duane E. Carter has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1985 and the most recent in November 2005. Duane E. Carter ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Duane E. Carter in Plano, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1985 to 2005Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1989.peak 41985: 1 patents19851986: 1 patents1987: 1 patents19871989: 4 patents1990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents1993: 1 patents19931996: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19982000: 2 patents2001: 3 patents20012002: 1 patents2003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents2005

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6967054 Coating thickness control using surface features Jay B. Kirk, Zuhair Hilali, Duy Phan, Darren Stephen Lee, Gary A. Evans +1 more 2005-11-22
6544886 Process for isolating an exposed conducting surface Jiong-Ping Lu, Qi-Zhong Hong, Yung Liu 2003-04-08 $16,265,000
6423627 Method for forming memory array and periphery contacts using a same mask Ming-Jang Hwang 2002-07-23 $26,143,000
6282010 Anti-reflective coatings for spatial light modulators Frank C. Sulzbach, Brian L. Ray, G. Sreenivas, Henry W. Trombley, Austin L. Huang +1 more 2001-08-28 $65,117,000
6271078 Simplifying conductive plate/via isolation Stephen W. Russell, Antonio L. P. Rotondaro, Donald L. Plumton 2001-08-07 $77,130,000
6184129 Low resistivity poly-silicon gate produced by selective metal growth Ming-Jang Hwang, Jiong-Ping Lu, Wei-Yung Hsu 2001-02-06 $64,248,000
6100188 Stable and low resistance metal/barrier/silicon stack structure and related process for manufacturing Jiong-Ping Lu, Ming-Jang Hwang, Dick N. Anderson, Wei-Yung Hsu 2000-08-08 $71,555,000
6028690 Reduced micromirror mirror gaps for improved contrast ratio James D. Huffman, Rodney D. Miller, Brian L. Ray, Robert Meier 2000-02-22 $71,303,000
5835336 Complemetary reset scheme for micromechanical devices Richard L. Knipe, Lionel S. White, Jr. 1998-11-10 $19,773,000
5512130 Method and apparatus of etching a clean trench in a semiconductor material Gabriel G. Barna, James G. Frank, Richard P. VanMeurs 1996-04-30 $9,601,000
5252506 Method to eliminate gate filaments on field plate isolated devices William R. McKee, Gishi Chung, Fred Fishburn 1993-10-12 $7,138,000
4997520 Method for etching tungsten Rhett B. Jucha, Cecil J. Davis, Jeff D. Achenbach 1991-03-05 $5,116,000
4945069 Organic space holder for trench processing 1990-07-31 $10,017,000
4874723 Selective etching of tungsten by remote and in situ plasma generation Rhett B. Jucha, Cecil J. Davis, Sue Crank 1989-10-17 $1,450,000
4849068 Apparatus and method for plasma-assisted etching Cecil J. Davis, Rhett B. Jucha 1989-07-18 $2,231,000
4849067 Method for etching tungsten Rhett B. Jucha, Cecil J. Davis, Sue Crank, John I. Jones 1989-07-18 $2,231,000
4842680 Advanced vacuum processor Cecil J. Davis, Timothy J. Wooldridge 1989-06-27 $1,908,000
4685999 Apparatus for plasma assisted etching Cecil J. Davis, Rhett B. Jucha 1987-08-11 $4,249,000
4623417 Magnetron plasma reactor John E. Spencer, Dave Autery 1986-11-18 $2,573,000
4502915 Two-step plasma process for selective anisotropic etching of polycrystalline silicon without leaving residue Rhett B. Jucha 1985-03-05 $1,225,000