Inventor · San Diego, CA, US

Thomas Patrick Duffey

34Patents
8h-index
78Co-inventors
78Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 18, 1998 → Oct 21, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6128323A Reliable modular production quality narrow-band high REP rate excimer laser Electricity 171 Expired
US6018537A Reliable, modular, production quality narrow-band high rep rate F.sub.2 laser Electricity 161 Expired
US6240117A Fluorine control system with fluorine monitor Electricity 102 Expired
US6330261A Reliable, modular, production quality narrow-band high rep rate ArF excimer laser Electricity 60 Expired
US6757316B2 Four KHz gas discharge laser Electricity 52 Expired
US6370174B1 Injection seeded F2 lithography laser Electricity 51 Expired
US6034978A Gas discharge laser with gas temperature control Electricity 38 Expired
USRE38054E1 Reliable, modular, production quality narrow-band high rep rate F2 laser General 22 Expired
US6330260A F2 laser with visible red and IR control Electricity 7 Expired
US9599510B2 Estimation of spectral feature of pulsed light beam Physics 4 Active
US8284815B2 Very high power laser chamber optical improvements Electricity 3 Active
US11054665B2 Reducing speckle in an excimer light source Electricity 1 Active
US10345714B2 Lithography optics adjustment and monitoring Physics 1 Active
US10228322B2 Apparatus for and method of sensing fluorine concentration Physics 1 Active
US11526083B2 Spectral feature selection and pulse timing control of a pulsed light beam Electricity 1 Active
US8982922B2 Very high power laser chamber optical improvements Electricity 1 Active
US9246298B2 Corrosion resistant electrodes for laser chambers Electricity 1 Active
US10451890B2 Reducing speckle in an excimer light source Electricity 1 Active
US9945730B2 Adjusting an amount of coherence of a light beam Electricity 1 Active
US7301980B2 Halogen gas discharge laser electrodes Electricity 1 Expired
US7995637B2 Gas discharge laser chamber Electricity 1 Active
US10845711B2 Lithography optics adjustment and monitoring Physics 0 Active
US11777271B2 Method of and apparatus for extending electrode life in a laser chamber Electricity 0 Active
US12374853B2 Control system for a plurality of deep ultraviolet optical oscillators Electricity 0 Active
US11686951B2 Reducing speckle in an excimer light source Electricity 0 Active

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