G03F 7/70683
Mark designs
Official title: {Mark designs}
G03F7/70683 (Mark designs) appears on 552 US grants and 653 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G03F- Granted patents
- 552
- Published applications
- 653
- Assignees
- 99
- Inventors
- 1,094
- Latest grant
- 25 Aug 2026
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| 2010 | 12 | 9 |
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| 2024 | 46 | 53 |
| 2025 | 48 | 40 |
| 2026 | 27 | 18 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Process proximity effect correction method and process proximity effect correction device25 Aug 2026US 12,717,225 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- One-dimensional overlay marks25 Aug 2026US 12,717,246 B2Intel Corporation
- Overlay mark, overlay error measurement method for wafer, and wafer stacking method18 Aug 2026US 12,710,697 B2Wuhan Xinxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Methods for measurement of rAIM18 Aug 2026US 12,710,698 B2KLA Corporation
- Single-cell scatterometry overlay with sensitivity calibration11 Aug 2026US 12,704,787 B2KLA Corporation
- Method and system for creating a stitched design file17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277113 A1APPLIED Materials.Inc.
- Overlay metrology based on a fringe pattern17 Sep 2026US 2026/0277118 A1ASML Netherlands B. V.
- Overlay measuring method using a voltage contrast image10 Sep 2026US 2026/0271395 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Metrology tool for ophthalmic device performance assessment13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235964 A1Alcon Inc.
- Semiconductor device including overlay key structure16 Jul 2026US 2026/0206607 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Spectroscopically measured overlay target118US 7,061,615 B1Nanometrics Incorporated · 2006
- Apparatus and methods for detecting overlay errors using scatterometry96US 7,242,477 B2KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation · 2007
- Continuously varying offset mark and methods of determining overlay64US 7,440,105 B2KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation · 2008
- Apparatus and methods for detecting overlay errors using scatterometry52US 7,317,531 B2KLA-Tencor Technologies Corporation · 2008
- Integrated lithographic print and detection model for optical CD50US 6,869,739 B1International Business Machines Corporation · 2005