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Victor Brouk — 31 Patents

AIAdvanced Energy Industries: 28 patents #3 of 173Top 2%
APAes Global Holdings Pte.: 2 patents #6 of 53Top 15%
Fort Collins, CO: #104 of 3,421 inventorsTop 4%
Colorado: #1,005 of 40,980 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Victor Brouk has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Advanced Energy Industries. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in December 2025. Victor Brouk ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Victor Brouk in Fort Collins, CO, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2007 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2016.peak 62007: 1 patents20072010: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 3 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 6 patents2017: 3 patents20172019: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 4 patents2025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12505980 Apparatus to produce a waveform Daniel Carter, Randy Heckman, Daniel J. Hoffman 2025-12-23
12354836 System, method, and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution in plasma processing systems Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter 2025-07-08
12255048 Apparatus to control ion energy Randy Heckman 2025-03-18
12159767 Spatial control of plasma processing environments Daniel Carter, Kevin Fairbairn, Denis Shaw 2024-12-03 $8,973,000
12154759 Apparatus to control a waveform Daniel Carter, Daniel J. Hoffman 2024-11-26 $27,155,000
12142452 Systems and methods for monitoring faults, anomalies, and other characteristics of a switched mode ion energy distribution system Daniel Carter, Daniel J. Hoffman 2024-11-12 $13,619,000
11978611 Apparatus with switches to produce a waveform Daniel Carter, Randy Heckman, Daniel J. Hoffman 2024-05-07 $8,569,000
11615941 System, method, and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution in plasma processing systems Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter 2023-03-28 $11,166,000
11437221 Spatial monitoring and control of plasma processing environments Daniel Carter, Kevin Fairbairn, Denis Shaw 2022-09-06 $22,224,000
11189454 Systems and methods for monitoring faults, anomalies, and other characteristics of a switched mode ion energy distribution system Daniel Carter, Daniel J. Hoffman 2021-11-30
11011349 System, method, and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution in plasma processing systems Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter 2021-05-18
10269540 Impedance matching system and method of operating the same Daniel Carter 2019-04-23 $17,178,000
9767988 Method of controlling the switched mode ion energy distribution system Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter 2017-09-19 $16,927,000
9685297 Systems and methods for monitoring faults, anomalies, and other characteristics of a switched mode ion energy distribution system Daniel Carter, Daniel J. Hoffman 2017-06-20 $14,405,000
9589767 Systems, methods, and apparatus for minimizing cross coupled wafer surface potentials Daniel J. Hoffman 2017-03-07 $14,230,000
9524854 Electrostatic remote plasma source system and method Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter, Karen Peterson, Randy Grilley 2016-12-20 $13,638,000
9435029 Wafer chucking system for advanced plasma ion energy processing systems Daniel J. Hoffman 2016-09-06 $10,382,000
9362089 Method of controlling the switched mode ion energy distribution system Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter 2016-06-07 $9,806,000
9309594 System, method and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution of a projected plasma Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter 2016-04-12 $4,103,000
9287092 Method and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution Randy Heckman 2016-03-15 $1,991,000
9287086 System, method and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution Randy Heckman, Daniel J. Hoffman 2016-03-15 $1,991,000
9208992 Method for controlling ion energy distribution Randy Heckman, Daniel J. Hoffman 2015-12-08 $3,817,000
9210790 Systems and methods for calibrating a switched mode ion energy distribution system Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter, William J. Hattel 2015-12-08 $3,817,000
9142388 Capacitively coupled remote plasma source Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter, Karen Peterson, Randy Grilley 2015-09-22 $3,562,000
9105447 Wide dynamic range ion energy bias control; fast ion energy switching; ion energy control and a pulsed bias supply; and a virtual front panel Daniel J. Hoffman, Daniel Carter, Dmitri Kovalevskii 2015-08-11 $7,258,000