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Examiner: Richards, N. Drew


Primary examiner statistics: 288 patents; average approval time: 291 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 254 patents; average approval time: 911 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8159034 Semiconductor device having insulated gate field effect transisto...
8148757 Semiconductor device, and its manufacturing method
8143111 System and method for configuring an integrated circuit
8106420 Light emitting device including semiconductor nanocrystals
8089127 Dual triggered silicon controlled rectifier
8067304 Method for forming a patterned thick metallization atop a power s...
8058083 Method for manufacturing flexible semiconductor device
8049338 Power semiconductor module and fabrication method
7989879 LDMOS transistor
7943484 Method for laterally cutting through a semiconductor wafer and op...
7910497 Method of forming dielectric layers on a substrate and apparatus ...
7888234 Method for manufacturing a semiconductor body with a trench and s...
7879635 Method for manufacturing semiconductor optical device
7811866 Single passivation layer scheme for forming a fuse
7759145 Process for producing light-emitting diode element emitting white...
7501308 Method of depositing polythiophene semiconductor on a substrate
7489184 Device and method for generating a low-voltage reference
7479821 Cascode circuit and semiconductor device
7476563 Method of packaging a device using a dielectric layer
7466168 Floating gate drive circuits
7465636 Methods for forming semiconductor wires and resulting devices
7459400 Patterned structures fabricated by printing mask over lift-off pa...
7459365 Method for fabricating a semiconductor component
7459363 Line edge roughness reduction
7456676 Charge pump circuit for semiconductor memory device
7456116 Gap-fill depositions in the formation of silicon containing diele...
7453315 Active inductive load that enhances circuit bandwidth
7453296 Delay locked loop having charge pump gain independent of operatin...
7449928 Semiconductor device
7446583 Switching arrangement for interconnecting electrolytic capacitors
7446576 Output driver with slew rate control
7446048 Dry etching apparatus and dry etching method
7443216 Trimmable delay locked loop circuitry with improved initializatio...
7443213 Staged locking of two phase locked loops
7442599 Silicon/germanium superlattice thermal sensor
7443219 Phase interpolation apparatus, systems, and methods
7439792 High voltage generation circuit and semiconductor device having t...
7436239 Electronic device including charge pump circuit
7436230 Delay locked loop with improved jitter and clock delay compensati...
7436224 Low variation voltage output differential for differential driver...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7186595 Solid picture element manufacturing method
7094675 Structure having spatially separated photo-excitable electron-hol...
7067442 Method to avoid threshold voltage shift in thicker dielectric fil...
7050133 Panel for liquid crystal display
7038296 Electrical component structure
7033958 Semiconductor device and process for producing the same
7015502 Organic semiconductor device and process of manufacturing the sam...
7012302 Complementary thin film transistor circuit, electro-optical devic...
7008845 Method and composite for decreasing charge leakage
7009214 Light-emitting device with a current blocking structure and metho...
7001809 Method to increase coupling ratio of source to floating gate in s...
6998343 Method for creating barrier layers for copper diffusion
6998297 Wafer level packaging
6998714 Selectively coating bond pads
6998357 High dielectric constant metal oxide gate dielectrics
6995058 Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof
6992002 Shapes-based migration of aluminum designs to copper damascence
6991999 Bi-layer silicon film and method of fabrication
6989580 Process for manufacturing an array of cells including selection b...
6984851 Group-III nitride semiconductor light-emitting diode, light-emitt...
6982185 Single crystal, dual wafer, tunneling sensor or switch with silic...
6972234 High voltage MOS devices with high gated-diode breakdown voltage ...
6969667 Electrical device and method of making
6964888 Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
6962852 Nonvolatile memories and methods of fabrication
6963138 Dielectric stack
6963136 Semiconductor integrated circuit device
6960485 Light-emitting device using a group III nitride compound semicond...
6958249 Method to monitor process charging effect
6955970 Process for manufacturing a low voltage MOSFET power device havin...
6956267 Semiconductor with a nitrided silicon gate oxide and method
6951776 Method of fabricating a thin and fine ball-grid array package wit...
6951768 Single crystal, dual wafer, tunneling sensor or switch with subst...
6949413 Method of fabricating a thin and fine ball-grid array package wit...
6949414 Method of fabricating a thin and fine ball-grid array package wit...
6946727 Vertical routing structure
6946376 Symmetric device with contacts self aligned to gate
6946700 Trench DRAM cell with vertical device and buried word lines
6940138 Semiconductor device, semiconductor gate array, electro-optical d...
6939803 Method for forming conductor reservoir volume for integrated circ...
 
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