C23C 16/042
Using masks
Official title: {using masks}
C23C16/042 (Using masks) appears on 656 US grants and 947 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in C23C- Granted patents
- 656
- Published applications
- 947
- Assignees
- 303
- Inventors
- 2,013
- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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| 2025 | 51 | 81 |
| 2026 | 34 | 48 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Mask assembly, method of manufacturing mask assembly, and method and apparatus for manufacturing display device29 Sep 2026US 12,747,494 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Optical devices including metastructures and methods for fabricating the optical devices29 Sep 2026US 12,748,240 B2NIL Technology ApS
- Mask assembly and mask assembly manufacturing method15 Sep 2026US 12,735,783 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Mask, mask assembly having the same, and method of repairing the mask15 Sep 2026US 12,735,784 B2Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Substrate treatment method, substrate treatment apparatus, and computer storage medium8 Sep 2026US 12,733,422 B2Tokyo Electron Limited
- Topology-selective deposition method and structure formed using same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0297730 A1ASM IP Holding B. V.
- Batch substrate processing for area selective deposition1 Oct 2026US 2026/0305230 A1ASM IP Holding B. V.
- Selective metal-on-metal deposition process24 Sep 2026US 2026/0286524 A1ASM IP Holding B. V.
- Deposition mask, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic device manufactured by using the same17 Sep 2026US 2026/0275503 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Material selective deposition process10 Sep 2026US 2026/0265905 A1ASM IP Holding B. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Wafer holding fixture for chemical reaction processes in rapid thermal processing equipment and method for making same643US 4,978,567 AMaterials Technology Corporation, subsidiary of the Carbon/Graphite Group, Inc. · 1990
- Method of growing nitride semiconductors, nitride semiconductor substrate and nitride semiconductor device643US 6,153,010 ANichia Chemical Industries, Ltd. · 2000
- Methods of selectively forming a material using parylene coating500US 8,945,305 B2Micron Technology, Inc. · 2015
- Passive shield for CVD wafer processing which provides frontside edge exclusion and prevents backside depositions384US 5,851,299 AAPPLIED Materials.Inc. · 1998
- Combinatorial synthesis of novel materials365US 5,985,356 ASymyx Technologies, Inc. · 1999