Inventor · Austin, TX, US

John Robinson

22Patents
6h-index
62Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 13, 2003 → Apr 28, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6928628B2 Use of overlay diagnostics for enhanced automatic process control Physics 75 Expired
US7804994B2 Overlay metrology and control method Physics 37 Active
US8175831B2 Methods and systems for creating or performing a dynamic sampling scheme for a process during which measurements are performed on wafers Electricity 34 Active
US8111376B2 Feedforward/feedback litho process control of stress and overlay Physics 19 Active
US9116442B2 Feedforward/feedback litho process control of stress and overlay Physics 15 Active
US7310789B2 Use of overlay diagnostics for enhanced automatic process control Physics 14 Active
US8948495B2 Inspecting a wafer and/or predicting one or more characteristics of a device being formed on a wafer Physics 5 Active
US7111256B2 Use of overlay diagnostics for enhanced automatic process control Physics 5 Expired
US9903711B2 Feed forward of metrology data in a metrology system Physics 4 Active
US9620426B2 Method and system for providing process tool correctables using an optimized sampling scheme with smart interpolation Electricity 4 Active
US10466596B2 System and method for field-by-field overlay process control using measured and estimated field parameters Physics 3 Active
US11293970B2 Advanced in-line part average testing Physics 3 Active
US10409171B2 Overlay control with non-zero offset prediction Physics 2 Active
US8804137B2 Unique mark and method to determine critical dimension uniformity and registration of reticles combined with wafer overlay capability Electricity 2 Active
US11614480B2 System and method for Z-PAT defect-guided statistical outlier detection of semiconductor reliability failures Electricity 2 Active
US7679069B2 Method and system for optimizing alignment performance in a fleet of exposure tools Physics 1 Active
US10649447B2 Methods and systems for creating or performing a dynamic sampling scheme for a process during which measurements are performed on wafers Electricity 1 Active
US12422376B2 Imaging reflectometry for inline screening Physics 0 Active
US9651943B2 Methods and systems for creating or performing a dynamic sampling scheme for a process during which measurements are performed on wafers Electricity 0 Active
US11624775B2 Systems and methods for semiconductor defect-guided burn-in and system level tests Electricity 0 Active
US11798827B2 Systems and methods for semiconductor adaptive testing using inline defect part average testing Physics 0 Active
US12332182B2 System for automatic diagnostics and monitoring of semiconductor defect die screening performance through overlay of defect and electrical test data Physics 0 Active

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