Inventor · South Burlington, VT, US

Tom C. Lee

75Patents
9h-index
71Co-inventors
77Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 4, 2003 → Jun 25, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7786535B2 Design structures for high-voltage integrated circuits Electricity 244 Active
US7397260B2 Structure and method for monitoring stress-induced degradation of conductive interconnects Electricity 167 Expired
US7166913B2 Heat dissipation for heat generating element of semiconductor device and related method Electricity 34 Expired
US7892926B2 Fuse link structures using film stress for programming and methods of manufacture Electricity 16 Active
US8563336B2 Method for forming thin film resistor and terminal bond pad simultaneously Electricity 15 Active
US8021950B1 Semiconductor wafer processing method that allows device regions to be selectively annealed following back end of the line (BEOL) metal wiring layer formation Electricity 15 Active
US8445355B2 Metal-insulator-metal capacitors with high capacitance density Electricity 15 Active
US7345503B2 Method and apparatus for impedance matching in transmission circuits using tantalum nitride resistor devices Electricity 10 Active
US8637388B2 Semiconductor device heat dissipation structure Electricity 9 Active
US8841174B1 Silicon controlled rectifier with integral deep trench capacitor Electricity 9 Active
US8236655B2 Fuse link structures using film stress for programming and methods of manufacture Electricity 8 Active
US8101505B2 Programmable electrical fuse Electricity 8 Active
US8089105B2 Fuse link structures using film stress for programming and methods of manufacture Electricity 8 Active
US9064786B2 Dual three-dimensional (3D) resistor and methods of forming Electricity 7 Active
US8760831B2 Bi-directional back-to-back stacked SCR for high-voltage pin ESD protection, methods of manufacture and design structures Electricity 6 Active
US8592941B2 Fuse structure having crack stop void, method for forming and programming same, and design structure Electricity 5 Active
US9240471B2 SCR with fin body regions for ESD protection Electricity 5 Active
US7768815B2 Optoelectronic memory devices Physics 4 Active
US8610249B2 Non-planar capacitor and method of forming the non-planar capacitor Electricity 4 Active
US8562210B2 Thermal sensor for semiconductor circuits Physics 4 Active
US7512506B2 IC chip stress testing Physics 4 Active
US8891212B2 RC-triggered semiconductor controlled rectifier for ESD protection of signal pads Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8686508B2 Structures, methods and applications for electrical pulse anneal processes Electricity 4 Active
US8669146B2 Semiconductor structures with thinned junctions and methods of manufacture Electricity 4 Active
US9006783B2 Silicon controlled rectifier with integral deep trench capacitor Electricity 3 Active

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