Inventor · Katonah, NY, US

Mark A. Lavin

90Patents
23h-index
118Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 24, 1989 → Dec 6, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7312487B2 Three dimensional integrated circuit Electricity 306 Expired
US7723207B2 Three dimensional integrated circuit and method of design Electricity 269 Active
US6578190B2 Process window based optical proximity correction of lithographic images Physics 244 Expired
US7353492B2 Method of IC fabrication, IC mask fabrication and program product therefor Physics 194 Expired
US6057063A Phase shifted mask design system, phase shifted mask and VLSI circuit devices manufactured therewith Physics 114 Expired
US5537648A "Geometric autogeneration of ""hard"" phase-shift designs for VLSI" Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 99 Expired
US5636131A "Geometric autogeneration of""hard""phase-shift designs for VLSI" Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 85 Expired
US6066180A Automatic generation of phase shift masks using net coloring Physics 76 Expired
US6247853A Incremental method for critical area and critical region computation of via blocks Electricity 72 Expired
US6738954B1 Method for prediction random defect yields of integrated circuits with accuracy and computation time controls Physics 67 Expired
US5923563A Variable density fill shape generation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 67 Expired
US7010776B2 Extending the range of lithographic simulation integrals Physics 44 Expired
US5636133A Efficient generation of fill shapes for chips and packages Physics 43 Expired
US7001693B2 Binary OPC for assist feature layout optimization Physics 37 Expired
US6189130A System and method for determining density maps in hierarchical designs Physics 36 Expired
US5552996A Method and system using the design pattern of IC chips in the processing thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 35 Expired
US7536664B2 Physical design system and method Physics 32 Expired
US6895372B1 System and method for VLSI visualization Physics 30 Expired
US4876733A Method for performing morphic transformations on image data in a general purpose computer Physics 27 Expired
US6044208A Incremental critical area computation for VLSI yield prediction Electricity 26 Expired
US7089511B2 Framework for hierarchical VLSI design Physics 26 Expired
US7043712B2 Method for adaptive segment refinement in optical proximity correction Physics 25 Expired
US7147976B2 Binary OPC for assist feature layout optimization Physics 24 Expired
US5883813A Automatic generation of phase shift masks using net coloring Physics 23 Expired
US6528883B1 Shapes-based migration of aluminum designs to copper damascene Electricity 21 Expired

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