Inventor · Elmsford, NY, US

Nicholas C. M. Fuller

71Patents
10h-index
103Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: May 14, 2004 → Oct 3, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US9324650B2 Interconnect structures with fully aligned vias Electricity 76 Active
US9405582B2 Dynamic parallel distributed job configuration in a shared-resource environment Physics 33 Active
US8084825B2 Trilayer resist scheme for gate etching applications Electricity 20 Active
US7739218B2 Systems and methods for building and implementing ontology-based information resources Physics 19 Active
US7435671B2 Trilayer resist scheme for gate etching applications Electricity 18 Active
US7943480B2 Sub-lithographic dimensioned air gap formation and related structure Electricity 15 Active
US7402463B2 Adopting feature of buried electrically conductive layer in dielectrics for electrical anti-fuse application Electricity 14 Active
US8871107B2 Subtractive plasma etching of a blanket layer of metal or metal alloy Electricity 13 Active
US8633117B1 Sputter and surface modification etch processing for metal patterning in integrated circuits Electricity 13 Active
US8618036B2 Aqueous cerium-containing solution having an extended bath lifetime for removing mask material Physics 11 Active
US10467586B2 Blockchain ledgers of material spectral signatures for supply chain integrity management Electricity 10 Active
US8367556B1 Use of an organic planarizing mask for cutting a plurality of gate lines Electricity 8 Active
US7816275B1 Gate patterning of nano-channel devices Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Active
US9582189B2 Dynamic tuning of memory in MapReduce systems Physics 7 Active
US8159042B2 Adopting feature of buried electrically conductive layer in dielectrics for electrical anti-fuse application Electricity 7 Active
US8455366B1 Use of an organic planarizing mask for cutting a plurality of gate lines Electricity 7 Active
US7371461B2 Multilayer hardmask scheme for damage-free dual damascene processing of SiCOH dielectrics Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US10685323B2 Blockchain ledgers of material spectral signatures for supply chain integrity management Electricity 6 Active
US7435676B2 Dual damascene process flow enabling minimal ULK film modification and enhanced stack integrity Electricity 6 Active
US7196014B2 System and method for plasma induced modification and improvement of critical dimension uniformity Electricity 5 Expired
US7282441B2 De-fluorination after via etch to preserve passivation Electricity 5 Expired
US7811926B2 Multilayer hardmask scheme for damage-free dual damascene processing of SiCOH dielectrics Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US9911690B2 Interconnect structures with fully aligned vias Electricity 5 Active
US10721328B2 Offering application program interfaces (APIs) for sale in cloud marketplace Electricity 4 Active
US7352064B2 Multiple layer resist scheme implementing etch recipe particular to each layer Electricity 4 Expired

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