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Sharp Microelectronics Technology Inc.

70Patents
0Active
70Granted
39Portfolio score

Filing activity: Sep 8, 1987 → Nov 6, 1998

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5897379A Low temperature system and method for CVD copper removal Electricity 361 Expired
US5904565A Low resistance contact between integrated circuit metal levels and method for same Electricity 216 Expired
US5792679A Method for forming silicon-germanium/Si/silicon dioxide heterostructure using germanium implant Electricity 196 Expired
US5293645A Apparatus and method for locating mobile and portable radio terminals in a radio network Physics 150 Expired
US5915199A Method for manufacturing a CMOS self-aligned strapped interconnection Electricity 113 Expired
US5821169A Hard mask method for transferring a multi-level photoresist pattern Electricity 84 Expired
US5794146A System and method for conserving battery power in a mobile station searching to select a serving cell Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 84 Expired
US5671221A Receiving method and apparatus for use in a spread-spectrum communication system Electricity 83 Expired
US5680641A Multiple register bank system for concurrent I/O operation in a CPU datapath Physics 70 Expired
US5654245A Implantation of nucleating species for selective metallization and products thereof Electricity 67 Expired
US5468657A Nitridation of SIMOX buried oxide Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 63 Expired
US4875196A Method of operating data buffer apparatus Physics 62 Expired
US5436175A Shallow SIMOX processing method using molecular ion implantation Electricity 61 Expired
US5313413A Apparatus and method for preventing I/O bandwidth limitations in fast fourier transform processors Physics 56 Expired
US5753417A Multiple exposure masking system for forming multi-level resist profiles Physics 55 Expired
US5684404A System and method of measuring a battery lifetime Physics 45 Expired
US5736002A Methods and equipment for anisotropic, patterned conversion of copper into selectively removable compounds and for removal of same Electricity 36 Expired
US5448706A Address generator for multi-channel circular-buffer style processing Physics 35 Expired
US5439848A Method for fabricating a self-aligned multi-level interconnect Electricity 35 Expired
US5830775A Raised silicided source/drain electrode formation with reduced substrate silicon consumption Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Expired
US5906910A Multi-level photoresist profile method Physics 34 Expired
US5726459A GE-SI SOI MOS transistor and method of fabricating same Electricity 33 Expired
US5712553A Battery transposition system and method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Expired
US5913144A Oxidized diffusion barrier surface for the adherence of copper and method for same Electricity 32 Expired
US5502674A Method and apparatus for repair of memory by redundancy Physics 32 Expired

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