Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Christopher Sears

12Patents
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18Co-inventors
49Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 9, 2012 → Aug 27, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9165742B1 Inspection site preparation Electricity 11 Active
US10338013B1 Position feedback for multi-beam particle detector Electricity 4 Active
US9082580B2 Notched magnetic lens for improved sample access in an SEM Electricity 3 Active
US8752437B2 Magnet strength measurement Physics 2 Active
US10460903B2 Method and system for charge control for imaging floating metal structures on non-conducting substrates Electricity 0 Active
US10790114B2 Scanning electron microscope objective lens calibration using X-Y voltages iteratively determined from images obtained using said voltages Electricity 0 Active
US11087950B2 Charge control device for a system with multiple electron beams Electricity 0 Active
US9653257B2 Method and system for reducing charging artifacts in scanning electron microscopy images Electricity 0 Active
US9892885B2 System and method for drift compensation on an electron beam based characterization tool Electricity 0 Active
US9232626B2 Wafer grounding using localized plasma source Electricity 0 Active
US11302511B2 Field curvature correction for multi-beam inspection systems Electricity 0 Active
US9171694B2 Asymmetric electrostatic quadrupole deflector for improved field uniformity Electricity 0 Active

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