Inventor · Clinton Corners, NY, US

Michael Hargrove

58Patents
13h-index
76Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 23, 1993 → Jul 29, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US8048791B2 Method of forming a semiconductor device Electricity 122 Active
US6372559B1 Method for self-aligned vertical double-gate MOSFET Electricity 78 Expired
US6320225A SOI CMOS body contact through gate, self-aligned to source- drain diffusions Electricity 59 Expired
US6531375B1 Method of forming a body contact using BOX modification Electricity 42 Expired
US6433587B1 SOI CMOS dynamic circuits having threshold voltage control Electricity 41 Expired
US6335262B1 Method for fabricating different gate oxide thicknesses within the same chip Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 32 Expired
US9343300B1 Methods of forming source/drain regions for a PMOS transistor device with a germanium-containing channel region Electricity 24 Active
US5731941A Electrostatic discharge suppression circuit employing trench capacitor Electricity 24 Expired
US7932143B1 Methods for protecting gate stacks during fabrication of semiconductor devices and semiconductor devices fabricated from such methods Electricity 23 Active
US9147730B2 Methods of forming fins for FinFET semiconductor devices and selectively removing some of the fins by performing a cyclical fin cutting process Electricity 19 Active
US6531741B1 Dual buried oxide film SOI structure and method of manufacturing the same Electricity 17 Expired
US8361894B1 Methods of forming FinFET semiconductor devices with different fin heights Electricity 17 Active
US9318342B2 Methods of removing fins for finfet semiconductor devices Electricity 13 Active
US5401130A Internal circulation fluidized bed (ICFB) combustion system and method of operation thereof Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 13 Expired
US7315438B2 Technique to reduce ESD loading capacitance Electricity 12 Expired
US8809178B2 Methods of forming bulk FinFET devices with replacement gates so as to reduce punch through leakage currents Electricity 12 Active
US6756637B2 Method of controlling floating body effects in an asymmetrical SOI device Electricity 12 Expired
US7723192B2 Integrated circuit long and short channel metal gate devices and method of manufacture Electricity 12 Active
US7598838B2 Variable inductor technique Electricity 11 Expired
US8076209B2 Methods for fabricating MOS devices having highly stressed channels Electricity 11 Active
US7767534B2 Methods for fabricating MOS devices having highly stressed channels Electricity 11 Active
US6344671B1 Pair of FETs including a shared SOI body contact and the method of forming the FETs Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US7268645B2 Integrated resonator structure and methods for its manufacture and use Electricity 10 Expired
US8294211B2 Semiconductor transistor device structure with back side gate contact plugs, and related manufacturing method Electricity 10 Active
US7998832B2 Semiconductor device with isolation trench liner, and related fabrication methods Electricity 9 Active

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