Inventor · Los Altos, CA, US

Martin Alter

32Patents
11h-index
20Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 3, 1976 → Jul 30, 2013

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7315052B2 Power FET with embedded body pickup Electricity 162 Expired
US5447876A Method of making a diamond shaped gate mesh for cellular MOS transistor array Electricity 107 Expired
US5517046A High voltage lateral DMOS device with enhanced drift region Electricity 71 Expired
US5355008A Diamond shaped gate mesh for cellular MOS transistor array Electricity 71 Expired
US4914546A Stacked multi-polysilicon layer capacitor Electricity 58 Expired
US5439764A Mask having multiple patterns Physics 28 Expired
US4979001A Hidden zener diode structure in configurable integrated circuit Electricity 23 Expired
US7145211B2 Seal ring for mixed circuitry semiconductor devices Electricity 16 Expired
US5034346A Method for forming shorting contact for semiconductor which allows for relaxed alignment tolerance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US7087973B2 Ballast resistors for transistor devices Electricity 13 Expired
US6621138B1 Zener-like trim device in polysilicon Electricity 11 Expired
US7195952B2 Schottky diode device with aluminum pickup of backside cathode Electricity 11 Expired
US5045966A Method for forming capacitor using FET process and structure formed by same Electricity 11 Expired
US4951101A Diamond shorting contact for semiconductors Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US7501693B2 LDO regulator with ground connection through package bottom Electricity 9 Active
US6900538B2 Integrating chip scale packaging metallization into integrated circuit die structures Electricity 8 Expired
US6395591B1 Selective substrate implant process for decoupling analog and digital grounds Electricity 8 Expired
US5254486A Method for forming PNP and NPN bipolar transistors in the same substrate Electricity 8 Expired
US5439841A High value gate leakage resistor Electricity 7 Expired
US6917105B2 Integrating chip scale packaging metallization into integrated circuit die structures Electricity 7 Expired
US4149177A Method of fabricating conductive buried regions in integrated circuits and the resulting structures Electricity 7 Expired
US5589702A High value gate leakage resistor Electricity 6 Expired
US7843019B2 Seal ring for mixed circuitry semiconductor devices Electricity 3 Active
US7211893B2 Integrating chip scale packaging metallization into integrated circuit die structures Electricity 3 Expired
US8525257B2 LDMOS transistor with asymmetric spacer as gate Electricity 3 Active

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