Inventor · Middletown, NY, US

Michael E. Scaman

22Patents
7h-index
30Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 18, 1994 → Dec 7, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5821759A Method and apparatus for detecting shorts in a multi-layer electronic package Physics 29 Expired
US6242923A Method for detecting power plane-to-power plane shorts and I/O net-to power plane shorts in modules and printed circuit boards Physics 19 Expired
US6141093A Method and apparatus for locating power plane shorts using polarized light microscopy Physics 17 Expired
US7187179B1 Wiring test structures for determining open and short circuits in semiconductor devices Electricity 14 Expired
US5818239A Simplified contactless test of MCM thin film I/O nets using a plasma Physics 9 Expired
US7353472B2 System and method for testing pattern sensitive algorithms for semiconductor design Physics 8 Expired
US8161421B2 Calibration and verification structures for use in optical proximity correction Physics 7 Active
US5448650A Thin-film latent open optical detection with template-based feature extraction Physics 7 Expired
US6400128B2 Thermal modulation system and method for locating a circuit defect Physics 6 Expired
US6005966A Method and apparatus for multi-stream detection of high density metalization layers of multilayer structures having low contrast Physics 6 Expired
US7360199B2 Iterative method for refining integrated circuit layout using compass optical proximity correction (OPC) Physics 4 Active
US5936408A Simplified contactless test of MCM thin film I/O nets using a plasma Physics 4 Expired
US6236196A Thermal modulation system and method for locating a circuit defect such as a short or incipient open independent of a circuit geometry Physics 3 Expired
US6800864B2 Method and structure for reducing effects of noise and resonance associated with an e-beam lithography tool Electricity 3 Expired
US8174681B2 Calibration of lithographic process models Physics 1 Active
US8201132B2 System and method for testing pattern sensitive algorithms for semiconductor design Physics 1 Active
US7975246B2 MEEF reduction by elongation of square shapes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US6781141B2 Method and structure for detection and measurement of electrical and mechanical resonance associated with an E-beam lithography tool Electricity 0 Expired
US7673279B2 Iterative method for refining integrated circuit layout using compass optical proximity correction (OPC) Physics 0 Active
US7685544B2 Testing pattern sensitive algorithms for semiconductor design Physics 0 Active
US7808257B2 Ionization test for electrical verification Physics 0 Expired
US6785615B2 Method and structure for detection of electromechanical problems using variance statistics in an E-beam lithography device Electricity 0 Expired

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