Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Daniel P. Sanders

89Patents
14h-index
122Co-inventors
83Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 20, 2003 → Sep 18, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7521090B1 Method of use of epoxy-containing cycloaliphatic acrylic polymers as orientation control layers for block copolymer thin films Performing Operations; Transporting 104 Active
US7521094B1 Method of forming polymer features by directed self-assembly of block copolymers Performing Operations; Transporting 74 Active
US8114306B2 Method of forming sub-lithographic features using directed self-assembly of polymers Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 69 Active
US9159558B2 Methods of reducing defects in directed self-assembled structures Performing Operations; Transporting 61 Active
US8226838B2 Method of forming polymer features by directed self-assembly of block copolymers Performing Operations; Transporting 33 Active
US7507854B2 Impurity reduction in Olefin metathesis reactions Chemistry; Metallurgy 32 Expired
US7678537B2 Graded topcoat materials for immersion lithography Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Active
US8336003B2 Method for designing optical lithography masks for directed self-assembly Physics 29 Active
US7213211B1 System for knowledge transfer in a group setting Physics 22 Expired
US7508354B1 Multi-board presentation system Electricity 21 Expired
US8828493B2 Methods of directed self-assembly and layered structures formed therefrom Physics 16 Active
US8143369B2 Polymers bearing pendant pentafluorophenyl ester groups, and methods of synthesis and functionalization thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Active
US7763319B2 Method of controlling orientation of domains in block copolymer films Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US7514063B1 Method for the purification of semiconducting single walled carbon nanotubes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Active
US8398868B2 Directed self-assembly of block copolymers using segmented prepatterns Performing Operations; Transporting 12 Active
US8491965B2 Method of controlling orientation of domains in block copolymer films Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US8623458B2 Methods of directed self-assembly, and layered structures formed therefrom Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Active
US8856693B2 Method for designing optical lithography masks for directed self-assembly Physics 10 Active
US9107291B2 Formation of a composite pattern including a periodic pattern self-aligned to a prepattern Electricity 9 Active
US8410290B2 Cyclic carbonyl compounds with pendant carbonate groups, preparations thereof, and polymers therefrom Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Active
US8642787B2 Surface modified nanoparticles, methods of their preparation, and uses thereof for gene and drug delivery Chemistry; Metallurgy 9 Active
US8734904B2 Methods of forming topographical features using segregating polymer mixtures Performing Operations; Transporting 8 Active
US8821978B2 Methods of directed self-assembly and layered structures formed therefrom Physics 8 Active
US9768059B1 High-chi block copolymers for interconnect structures by directed self-assembly Electricity 7 Active
US8084193B2 Self-segregating multilayer imaging stack with built-in antireflective properties Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active

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