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Helmut Rinck — 12 Patents

TITexas Instruments: 12 patents #1,161 of 12,488Top 10%
Moosburg an der Isar, DE: #11 of 126 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Helmut Rinck has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Texas Instruments. The first was granted in 1990 and the most recent in March 2024. Helmut Rinck ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Helmut Rinck in Moosburg an der Isar, DE.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1990 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2019.peak 21990: 1 patents19901991: 1 patents19911992: 1 patents19922016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents20182019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents20202021: 2 patents20212023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11929423 Etching platinum-containing thin film using protective cap layer Sebastian Meier, Mike Mittelstaedt 2024-03-12 $39,191,000
11658034 Patterning platinum by alloying and etching platinum alloy Sebastian Meier 2023-05-23 $38,750,000
11069530 Etching platinum-containing thin film using protective cap layer Sebastian Meier, Mike Mittelstaedt 2021-07-20 $33,717,000
11011381 Patterning platinum by alloying and etching platinum alloy Sebastian Meier 2021-05-18 $32,944,000
10714439 Electronic device having cobalt coated aluminum contact pads Nazila Dadvand 2020-07-14 $27,411,000
10504733 Etching platinum-containing thin film using protective cap layer Sebastian Meier, Mike Mittelstaedt 2019-12-10 $30,415,000
10297497 Sacrificial layer for platinum patterning Sebastian Meier, Kai-Alexander Schachtschneider, Fromund Metz, Mario Schmidpeter, Javier Gustavo Moreira 2019-05-21 $39,736,000
9960135 Metal bond pad with cobalt interconnect layer and solder thereon Gernot Manfred Bauer, ROBERT ZRILE, Kai-Alexander Schachtschneider, Michael Otte, HARALD WIESNER 2018-05-01 $47,127,000
9230852 Integrated circuit (IC) having electrically conductive corrosion protecting cap over bond pads Fromund Metz, Jan Hermann Pape, Janet Riley 2016-01-05 $10,710,000
5080484 Method of measuring the contact angle of wetting liquid on a solid surface Helmut Schneider 1992-01-14 $5,063,000
5019205 Apparatus for wet etching of thin films Helmut Endl 1991-05-28 $2,901,000
4969973 Method for etching an electrically conductive layer applied to a substrate Helmut Endl 1990-11-13 $6,678,000