Inventor · Pleasanton, CA, US

Dale E. Ibbotson

12Patents
8h-index
18Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 1, 1982 → Jul 8, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4918031A Processes depending on plasma generation using a helical resonator Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 178 Expired
US4498953A Etching techniques Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 166 Expired
US5654903A Method and apparatus for real time monitoring of wafer attributes in a plasma etch process Physics 100 Expired
US5653894A Active neural network determination of endpoint in a plasma etch process Electricity 44 Expired
US5494697A Process for fabricating a device using an ellipsometric technique Electricity 32 Expired
US4397711A Crystallographic etching of III-V semiconductor materials Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US5877407A Plasma etch end point detection process Physics 11 Expired
US4960656A Devices and process for producing devices containing silicon nitride films Electricity 8 Expired
US4689115A Gaseous etching process Electricity 6 Expired
US7883946B1 Angled implantation for deep submicron device optimization Electricity 1 Active
US8519403B1 Angled implantation for deep submicron device optimization Electricity 0 Active
US9171897B1 Area efficient series MIM capacitor Electricity 0 Active

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