Inventor · San Mateo, CA, US

Sam Kao

21Patents
12h-index
10Co-inventors
74Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 4, 2000 → Oct 6, 2011

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7049170B2 Integrated circuits and packaging substrates with cavities, and attachment methods including insertion of protruding contact pads into cavities Electricity 352 Expired
US7060601B2 Packaging substrates for integrated circuits and soldering methods Electricity 326 Expired
US7276724B2 Series interconnected optoelectronic device module assembly Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 92 Expired
US6897148B2 Electroplating and electroless plating of conductive materials into openings, and structures obtained thereby Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 86 Expired
US7034401B2 Packaging substrates for integrated circuits and soldering methods Electricity 83 Expired
US7241641B2 Attachment of integrated circuit structures and other substrates to substrates with vias Electricity 56 Expired
US7186586B2 Integrated circuits and packaging substrates with cavities, and attachment methods including insertion of protruding contact pads into cavities Electricity 49 Expired
US7241675B2 Attachment of integrated circuit structures and other substrates to substrates with vias Electricity 46 Expired
US7521360B2 Electroplating and electroless plating of conductive materials into openings, and structures obtained thereby Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 37 Active
US8198117B2 Photovoltaic devices with conductive barrier layers and foil substrates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Active
US6427991B1 Non-contact workpiece holder using vortex chuck with central gas flow Electricity 22 Expired
US7838868B2 Optoelectronic architecture having compound conducting substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US7732229B2 Formation of solar cells with conductive barrier layers and foil substrates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US7732232B2 Series interconnected optoelectronic device module assembly Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US6899788B2 Article holders that use gas vortices to hold an article in a desired position Electricity 2 Expired
US7919337B2 Optoelectronic architecture having compound conducting substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US7968869B2 Optoelectronic architecture having compound conducting substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US8525152B2 Formation of solar cells with conductive barrier layers and foil substrates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US8603575B1 Thin-film absorber formation method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US8309949B2 Optoelectronic architecture having compound conducting substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 0 Active
US6749764B1 Plasma processing comprising three rotational motions of an article being processed Electricity 0 Expired

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