Inventor · Plano, TX, US

Brian Smith

7Patents
4h-index
23Co-inventors
49Inventor score

Filing activity: May 23, 2003 → Aug 4, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9640396B2 Spin-on spacer materials for double- and triple-patterning lithography Electricity 9 Active
US6808942B1 Method for controlling a critical dimension (CD) in an etch process Electricity 8 Expired
US7244654B2 Drive current improvement from recessed SiGe incorporation close to gate Electricity 5 Expired
US7320927B2 In situ hardmask pullback using an in situ plasma resist trim process Electricity 5 Expired
US7300883B2 Method for patterning sub-lithographic features in semiconductor manufacturing Electricity 4 Expired
US8877430B2 Methods of producing structures using a developer-soluble layer with multilayer technology Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US7199011B2 Method to reduce transistor gate to source/drain overlap capacitance by incorporation of carbon Electricity 0 Expired

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