Inventor · Santa Clara, CA, US

Stefan Hunsche

47Patents
9h-index
69Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 14, 2002 → Jun 9, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7587704B2 System and method for mask verification using an individual mask error model Physics 224 Active
US7694267B1 Method for process window optimized optical proximity correction Physics 41 Active
US7488933B2 Method for lithography model calibration Physics 38 Active
US7617477B2 Method for selecting and optimizing exposure tool using an individual mask error model Physics 32 Active
US7749666B2 System and method for measuring and analyzing lithographic parameters and determining optimal process corrections Physics 31 Active
US8832610B2 Method for process window optimized optical proximity correction Physics 21 Active
US7139478B2 Nonlinear device comprising a spectrally broadening fiber Electricity 13 Expired
US8413081B2 Method for process window optimized optical proximity correction Physics 11 Active
US8909038B2 Method and apparatus providing transient control in optical add-drop nodes Electricity 10 Active
US11079687B2 Process window based on defect probability Physics 7 Active
US10859926B2 Methods for defect validation Physics 6 Active
US9990451B2 Process window optimizer Electricity 6 Active
US10712672B2 Method of predicting patterning defects caused by overlay error Physics 6 Active
US10514614B2 Process variability aware adaptive inspection and metrology Physics 6 Active
US9958791B2 Inspection apparatus and methods, substrates having metrology targets, lithographic system and device manufacturing method Physics 5 Active
US9645509B2 Scanner model representation with transmission cross coefficients Physics 5 Active
US6859306B2 Method, apparatus and system for reducing gain ripple in a raman-amplified WDM system Electricity 5 Expired
US6867852B2 Method and apparatus for channel detection Electricity 4 Expired
US10437157B2 Method and apparatus for image analysis Physics 4 Active
US10761432B2 Inspection apparatus and methods, substrates having metrology targets, lithographic system and device manufacturing method Physics 3 Active
US11003093B2 Process variability aware adaptive inspection and metrology Physics 3 Active
US10732513B2 Method and apparatus for image analysis Physics 3 Active
US6819480B2 Method and apparatus for controlling the extinction ratio of transmitters Physics 2 Expired
US11238189B2 Process window optimizer Electricity 2 Active
US11443083B2 Identification of hot spots or defects by machine learning Physics 2 Active

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