H10W 20/494
Changeable by the use of an external beam
Official title: {changeable by the use of an external beam, e.g. laser beam or ion beam}
H10W20/494 (Changeable by the use of an external beam) appears on 806 US grants and 695 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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By later US patents
- Energy-efficient, laser-based method and system for processing target material290US 6,281,471 B1GSI Lumonics Corporation · 2001
- Methods for fabricating fuse programmable three dimensional integrated circuits279US 7,312,109 B2Viciciv · 2007
- Method of customizing integrated circuits by selective secondary deposition of layer interconnect material255US 5,885,749 AClear Logic, Inc. · 1999
- Semiconductor device254US 7,115,966 B2Renesas Technology Corp. · 2006
- Fuse processing using dielectric planarization pillars214US 6,420,216 B1Infineon Technologies North America Corp. · 2002