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Ajay Bhatnagar — 11 Patents

Applied Materials: 8 patents #1,563 of 7,310Top 25%
CICiba-Geigy: 2 patents #1,054 of 2,867Top 40%
Holly Springs, NC: #49 of 335 inventorsTop 15%
North Carolina: #4,777 of 45,564 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Ajay Bhatnagar has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in November 2024. Ajay Bhatnagar ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Ajay Bhatnagar in Holly Springs, NC, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2021.peak 21991: 1 patents19911996: 1 patents19962002: 1 patents20022010: 1 patents20102014: 1 patents20142017: 1 patents20172019: 1 patents20192021: 2 patents20212023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12142534 Replacement contact process Sankuei Lin, Nitin K. Ingle 2024-11-12 $39,712,000
11735467 Airgap formation processes Ashish Pal, Gaurav Thareja, Sankuei Lin, Ching-Mei Hsu, Nitin K. Ingle +1 more 2023-08-22 $40,609,000
11211286 Airgap formation processes Ashish Pal, Gaurav Thareja, Sankuei Lin, Ching-Mei Hsu, Nitin K. Ingle +1 more 2021-12-28 $93,125,000
10943834 Replacement contact process Sankuei Lin, Nitin K. Ingle 2021-03-09 $63,182,000
10360203 Systems and methods for generating and implementing database audit functionality across multiple platforms Asif Jiwani, Alan Stickler 2019-07-23
9685374 Contact process flow Sankuei Lin 2017-06-20 $22,588,000
8759223 Double patterning etching process Kedar Sapre, Jing Tang, Nitin K. Ingle, Shankar Venkataraman 2014-06-24 $13,917,000
7704887 Remote plasma pre-clean with low hydrogen pressure Xinyu Fu, John C. Forster, Jick Yu, Praburam Gopalraja 2010-04-27 $16,065,000
6379492 Corrosion resistant coating Won Bae Bang, Chen-An Chen, Shankar Venkataraman 2002-04-30 $26,677,000
5583128 Contraception in female primates without affecting the menstrual cycle 1996-12-10
5057521 Use of bicyclic imidazole compounds for the treatment of hyperaldosteronism Albert Hausler 1991-10-15