Inventor · Santa Clara, CA, US

Paul Winer

51Patents
11h-index
36Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Oct 2, 1996 → Jul 25, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6222246A Flip-chip having an on-chip decoupling capacitor Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 55 Expired
US6495454B2 Substrate interconnect for power distribution on integrated circuits Electricity 42 Expired
US6355950B1 Substrate interconnect for power distribution on integrated circuits Electricity 33 Expired
US5923086A Apparatus for cooling a semiconductor die Electricity 32 Expired
US5942805A Fiducial for aligning an integrated circuit die Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Expired
US5854804A Method and apparatus for synchronizing a mode locked laser with a device under test Physics 31 Expired
US5952247A Method of accessing the circuitry on a semiconductor substrate from the bottom of the semiconductor substrate Electricity 27 Expired
US5805421A Semiconductor substrate having alignment marks for locating circuitry on the substrate Electricity 22 Expired
US6617177B1 Liquid crystal display devices having fill holes and electrical contacts on the back side of the die Physics 19 Expired
US5963781A Technique for determining semiconductor substrate thickness Electricity 18 Expired
US5948217A Method and apparatus for endpointing while milling an integrated circuit Electricity 18 Expired
US6001703A Method of forming a fiducial for aligning an integrated circuit die Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US5976980A Method and apparatus providing a mechanical probe structure in an integrated circuit die Electricity 11 Expired
US6159754A Method of making a circuit edit interconnect structure through the backside of an integrated circuit die Electricity 10 Expired
US6355494B1 Method and apparatus for controlling material removal from a semiconductor substrate using induced current endpointing Electricity 10 Expired
US6275205A Method and apparatus for displaying information with an integrated circuit device Physics 6 Expired
US6878567B2 Method and apparatus for fabrication of passivated microfluidic structures in semiconductor substrates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US6376919B1 Circuit edit interconnect structure through the backside of an integrated circuit die Electricity 6 Expired
US6525922B2 High performance via capacitor and method for manufacturing same Electricity 6 Expired
US9524681B2 Backlight modulation over external display interfaces to save power Physics 5 Active
US6159753A Method and apparatus for editing an integrated circuit Electricity 5 Expired
US6610605B2 Method and apparatus for fabricating encapsulated micro-channels in a substrate Electricity 5 Expired
US6122174A Method of accessing the circuitry on a semiconductor substrate from the bottom of the semiconductor substrate Electricity 4 Expired
US6809337B2 Liquid crystal display devices having fill holes and electrical contacts on the back side of the die Physics 4 Expired
US7755650B2 Illumination modulation technique Physics 4 Active

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