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
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.