Inventor · Los Altos Hills, CA, US

Brian E. Stine

22Patents
8h-index
42Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 18, 1999 → Oct 14, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6795952B1 System and method for product yield prediction using device and process neighborhood characterization vehicle Electricity 235 Expired
US6834375B1 System and method for product yield prediction using a logic characterization vehicle Electricity 222 Expired
US7487474B2 Designing an integrated circuit to improve yield using a variant design element Physics 175 Expired
US6449749B1 System and method for product yield prediction Electricity 156 Expired
US6901564B2 System and method for product yield prediction Electricity 127 Expired
US7174521B2 System and method for product yield prediction Electricity 20 Expired
US6475871B1 Passive multiplexor test structure for integrated circuit manufacturing Electricity 18 Expired
US7024642B2 Extraction method of defect density and size distributions Electricity 10 Expired
US7494893B1 Identifying yield-relevant process parameters in integrated circuit device fabrication processes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Active
US7356800B2 System and method for product yield prediction Electricity 8 Active
US7348594B2 Test structures and models for estimating the yield impact of dishing and/or voids Electricity 7 Expired
US7373625B2 System and method for product yield prediction Electricity 7 Active
US7197726B2 Test structures for estimating dishing and erosion effects in copper damascene technology Electricity 6 Expired
US7673262B2 System and method for product yield prediction Electricity 6 Active
US7807480B2 Test cells for semiconductor yield improvement Electricity 3 Active
US7154115B2 Zoom in pin nest structure, test vehicle having the structure, and method of fabricating the structure Electricity 3 Expired
US7305638B1 Method and system for ROM coding to improve yield Physics 2 Expired
US10268562B1 Advanced manufacturing insight system for semiconductor application Physics 1 Active
US12038802B2 Collaborative learning model for semiconductor applications Physics 0 Active
US10897814B2 Characterization vehicles for printed circuit board and system design Electricity 0 Active
US10656204B2 Failure detection for wire bonding in semiconductors Physics 0 Active
US10517169B2 Characterization vehicles for printed circuit board and system design Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.