Patents by Inventor Peter Brian Gray

Peter Brian Gray has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of contacting a silicide-based schottky diode and diode so formed
    Patent number: 6597050
    Abstract: A method of contacting a silicide-based Schottky diode including the step of providing a contact to the silicide that is fully bordered with respect to an internal edge of the guard ring area. A Schottky diode having silicide contacting a guard ring of the Schottky diode and a contact to the silicide that is fully bordered by silicide with respect to an internal edge of the guard ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Stuart Dunn, Peter Brian Gray, Kenneth Knetch Kieft, III, Nicholas Theodore Schmidt, Stephen St. onge
  • Method of contacting a silicide-based schottky diode
    Patent number: 6121122
    Abstract: A method of contacting a silicide-based Schottky diode including the step of providing a contact to the silicide that is fully bordered with respect to an internal edge of the guard ring area. A Schottky diode having silicide contacting a guard ring of the Schottky diode and a contact to the silicide that is fully bordered by silicide with respect to an internal edge of the guard ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: James Stuart Dunn, Peter Brian Gray, Kenneth Knetch Kieft, III, Nicholas Theodore Schmidt, Stephen St. onge