Inventor · Mountain View, CA, US

John Foster

22Patents
7h-index
32Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 15, 1983 → Jun 24, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7565820B2 Methods and apparatus for forming heat treated optical fiber Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 70 Expired
US4704949A Piston Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 14 Expired
US5551215A Bag and method of opening a bag with partial offset lip Performing Operations; Transporting 14 Expired
US5692360A System and method for packaging products Performing Operations; Transporting 11 Expired
US5137541A Polishing compounds and methods Chemistry; Metallurgy 11 Expired
US8298505B2 Process for gas sweetening Performing Operations; Transporting 10 Active
US8314022B1 Method for etching gate stack Electricity 7 Active
US9330937B2 Etching of semiconductor structures that include titanium-based layers Electricity 5 Active
US8716146B2 Low temperature etching of silicon nitride structures using phosphoric acid solutions Electricity 4 Active
US6306707A Double layer hard mask process to improve oxide quality for non-volatile flash memory products Electricity 4 Expired
US7597198B1 Novelty kit Human Necessities 2 Active
US8735302B2 High productivity combinatorial oxide terracing and PVD/ALD metal deposition combined with lithography for gate work function extraction Electricity 2 Active
US8513117B2 Process to remove Ni and Pt residues for NiPtSi applications Electricity 1 Active
US7916067B2 Removing clutter from radar cross section measurements using spectral tagging Electricity 1 Active
US8945952B2 High productivity combinatorial workflow for post gate etch clean development Electricity 1 Active
US8859431B2 Process to remove Ni and Pt residues for NiPtSi application using chlorine gas Electricity 0 Active
US8466058B2 Process to remove Ni and Pt residues for NiPtSi applications using chlorine gas Electricity 0 Active
US8144050B1 Removing clutter from radar cross section measurements using spectral tagging Electricity 0 Active
US8575016B1 Method for etching gate stack Electricity 0 Active
US8603837B1 High productivity combinatorial workflow for post gate etch clean development Electricity 0 Active
US9831100B2 Solution based etching of titanium carbide and titanium nitride structures Electricity 0 Active
US8854067B2 Circular transmission line methods compatible with combinatorial processing of semiconductors Electricity 0 Active

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