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INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM VZW

301Patents
43Active
301Granted
46Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 9, 1988 → Jul 15, 2010 · 43 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6391785B1 Method for bottomless deposition of barrier layers in integrated circuit metallization schemes Electricity 362 Expired
US6297072A Method of fabrication of a microstructure having an internal cavity Electricity 292 Expired
US7202517B2 Multiple gate semiconductor device and method for forming same Electricity 286 Expired
US7338896B2 Formation of deep via airgaps for three dimensional wafer to wafer interconnect Electricity 252 Active
US6941258B2 Method, apparatus and computer program product for determination of noise in mixed signal systems Physics 220 Expired
US6876056B2 Method and system for fabrication of integrated tunable/switchable passive microwave and millimeter wave modules Electricity 203 Expired
US5870588A Design environment and a design method for hardware/software co-design Physics 200 Expired
US6421809B1 Method for determining a storage bandwidth optimized memory organization of an essentially digital device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 155 Expired
US6897517B2 Multibit non-volatile memory and method Physics 129 Expired
US6491764B2 Method and apparatus for removing a liquid from a surface of a rotating substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 115 Expired
US8020163B2 Heterogeneous multiprocessor network on chip devices, methods and operating systems for control thereof Physics 109 Active
US7538764B2 System and method to obtain surface structures of multi-dimensional objects, and to represent those surface structures for animation, transmission and display Physics 107 Expired
US6223274A Power-and speed-efficient data storage/transfer architecture models and design methodologies for programmable or reusable multi-media processors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 103 Expired
US6207977A Vertical MISFET devices Electricity 103 Expired
US6194722A Method of fabrication of an infrared radiation detector and infrared detector device Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 101 Expired
US6398975B1 Method and apparatus for localized liquid treatment of the surface of a substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 91 Expired
USRE37512E1 Method of preparing solar cell front contacts General 88 Expired
US6640015B1 Method and system for multi-level iterative filtering of multi-dimensional data structures Electricity 85 Expired
US5854929A Method of generating code for programmable processors, code generator and application thereof Physics 82 Expired
US6982710B2 System and method to obtain surface structures of multi-dimensional objects, and to represent those surface structures for animation, transmission and display Physics 81 Expired
US7487587B2 Methods of producing a composite substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 78 Expired
US6521109B1 Device for detecting an analyte in a sample based on organic materials Electricity 72 Expired
US6772415B1 Loop optimization with mapping code on an architecture Physics 69 Expired
US6952825B1 Concurrent timed digital system design method and environment Physics 68 Expired
US6606588B1 Design apparatus and a method for generating an implementable description of a digital system Physics 65 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.