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TLTokyo Electron Limited: 88 patents #14 of 5,567Top 1%
IBM: 3 patents #26,272 of 70,183Top 40%
USUniversity Of Houston System: 1 patents #226 of 554Top 45%
TITexas Instruments: 1 patents #7,357 of 12,488Top 60%
Mabank, TX: #1 of 56 inventorsTop 2%
Texas: #519 of 125,132 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #17,218 of 4,157,543Top 1%
92 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 51–75 of 92 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
8276540 Method and system for introducing process fluid through a chamber component Merritt Funk 2012-10-02
8100082 Method and system for introducing process fluid through a chamber component Merritt Funk 2012-01-24
8083961 Method and system for controlling the uniformity of a ballistic electron beam by RF modulation Ping Jiang 2011-12-27
8038834 Method and system for controlling radical distribution Merritt Funk, David V. Horak, Eric J. Strang 2011-10-18
7998307 Electron beam enhanced surface wave plasma source Paul Moroz 2011-08-16
7993937 DC and RF hybrid processing system Merritt Funk 2011-08-09
7988813 Dynamic control of process chemistry for improved within-substrate process uniformity Radha Sundararajan, Merritt Funk 2011-08-02
7938081 Radial line slot antenna having a conductive layer Paul Moroz 2011-05-10
7939450 Method and apparatus for spacer-optimization (S-O) Asao Yamashita, Merritt Funk, Daniel Prager, Radha Sundararajan 2011-05-10
7899637 Method and apparatus for creating a gate optimization evaluation library Asao Yamashita, Merritt Funk, Daniel Prager, Radha Sundararajan 2011-03-01
7875555 Method for plasma processing over wide pressure range Merritt Funk 2011-01-25
7875859 Ion energy analyzer and methods of manufacturing and operating Lin Xu, Ronald Victor Bravenec 2011-01-25
7829469 Method and system for uniformity control in ballistic electron beam enhanced plasma processing system Hiromasa Mochiki 2010-11-09
7781340 Method and system for etching high-k dielectric materials Audunn Ludviksson 2010-08-24
7777179 Two-grid ion energy analyzer and methods of manufacturing and operating Lin Xu, Ronald Victor Bravenec 2010-08-17
7772544 Neutral beam source and method for plasma heating Merritt Funk 2010-08-10
7765077 Method and apparatus for creating a Spacer-Optimization (S-O) library Asao Yamashita, Merritt Funk, Daniel Prager, Radha Sundaranajan 2010-07-27
7754615 Method and apparatus for detecting endpoint in a dry etching system by monitoring a superimposed DC current Siddhartha Panda, Richard Wise, Michael Sievers 2010-07-13
7744720 Suppressor of hollow cathode discharge in a shower head fluid distribution system Lin Xu 2010-06-29
7732759 Multi-plasma neutral beam source and method of operating Merritt Funk 2010-06-08
7718030 Method and system for controlling radical distribution Merritt Funk, David V. Horak, Eric J. Strang 2010-05-18
7713758 Method and apparatus for optimizing a gate channel Asao Yamashita, Merritt Funk, Daniel Prager, Radha Sundararajan 2010-05-11
7709397 Method and system for etching a high-k dielectric material Hiromitsu Kambara, Nobuhiro Iwama, Akiteru Ko, Hiromasa Mochiki, Masaaki Hagihara 2010-05-04
7674636 Dynamic temperature backside gas control for improved within-substrate process uniformity Radha Sundararajan, Merritt Funk 2010-03-09
7642193 Method of treating a mask layer prior to performing an etching process Peter L. G. Ventzek, Akira Koshiishi, Ikuo Sawada 2010-01-05