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Ajit Balakrishna — 39 Patents

Applied Materials: 39 patents #240 of 7,310Top 4%
Sunnyvale, CA: #529 of 14,302 inventorsTop 4%
California: #11,915 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #81,245 of 4,157,543Top 2%
39 Patents All Time
Ajit Balakrishna has been granted 39 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2001 and the most recent in February 2024. Ajit Balakrishna ranks #81,245 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.0%). Patent records list Ajit Balakrishna in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2001 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2020.peak 62001: 1 patents20012004: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062009: 2 patents2011: 4 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 2 patents20152016: 2 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 3 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 6 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 2 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 39 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11894220 Method and apparatus for controlling a processing reactor Michael Nichols, Tina Dhekial-Phukan, Venkata Ravishankar Kasibhotla, Sanggyum Kim 2024-02-06 $39,056,000
11693053 Bode fingerprinting for characterizations and failure detections in processing chamber Tao Zhang, Upendra Ummethala 2023-07-04
11486927 Bode fingerprinting for characterizations and failure detections in processing chamber Tao Zhang, Upendra Ummethala 2022-11-01 $32,150,000
11315760 Symmetric plasma process chamber James D. Carducci, Hamid Tavassoli, Zhigang Chen, Andrew Nguyen, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr. +3 more 2022-04-26 $43,127,000
11049699 Gas box for CVD chamber Tejas Ulavi, Amit Kumar BANSAL, Nitin Pathak 2021-06-29 $47,858,000
10910238 Heater pedestal assembly for wide range temperature control Kaushik Alayavalli, Sanjeev Baluja, Amit Kumar BANSAL, Matthew J. Busche, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez +3 more 2021-02-02 $74,085,000
10770269 Apparatus and methods for reducing particles in semiconductor process chambers Andrew Nguyen, Bradley J. Howard, Shahid Rauf, Tom Choi, Kenneth S. Collins +3 more 2020-09-08 $22,964,000
10612135 Method and system for high temperature clean Sanjeev Baluja, Kalyanjit Ghosh, Ren-Guan Duan, Mayur Govind Kulkarni, Gregory Siu +4 more 2020-04-07 $24,481,000
10615006 Symmetric plasma process chamber James D. Carducci, Hamid Tavassoli, Zhigang Chen, Andrew Nguyen, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr. +3 more 2020-04-07 $24,481,000
10580620 Symmetric plasma process chamber James D. Carducci, Hamid Tavassoli, Zhigang Chen, Andrew Nguyen, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr. +3 more 2020-03-03 $21,905,000
10546728 Symmetric plasma process chamber James D. Carducci, Hamid Tavassoli, Zhigang Chen, Andrew Nguyen, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr. +3 more 2020-01-28 $24,189,000
10535502 Symmetric plasma process chamber James D. Carducci, Hamid Tavassoli, Zhigang Chen, Andrew Nguyen, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr. +3 more 2020-01-14 $50,821,000
10453656 Symmetric plasma process chamber James D. Carducci, Hamid Tavassoli, Zhigang Chen, Andrew Nguyen, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr. +3 more 2019-10-22 $16,291,000
10131994 Inductively coupled plasma source with top coil over a ceiling and an independent side coil and independent air flow Andrew Nguyen, Kenneth S. Collins, Kartik Ramaswamy, Shahid Rauf, James D. Carducci +5 more 2018-11-20 $33,309,000
9909213 Recursive pumping for symmetrical gas exhaust to control critical dimension uniformity in plasma reactors Sergio Fukuda Shoji, Hamid Noorbakhsh, Jong Mun Kim, Jason Della Rosa 2018-03-06 $32,877,000
9896769 Inductively coupled plasma source with multiple dielectric windows and window-supporting structure Andrew Nguyen, Kenneth S. Collins, Kartik Ramaswamy, Shahid Rauf, James D. Carducci +5 more 2018-02-20 $63,276,000
9761416 Apparatus and methods for reducing particles in semiconductor process chambers Andrew Nguyen, Bradley J. Howard, Shahid Rauf, Tom K. Cho, Kenneth S. Collins +3 more 2017-09-12 $20,589,000
9745663 Symmetrical inductively coupled plasma source with symmetrical flow chamber Andrew Nguyen, Kenneth S. Collins, Kartik Ramaswamy, Shahid Rauf, James D. Carducci +5 more 2017-08-29 $19,098,000
9741546 Symmetric plasma process chamber James D. Carducci, Hamid Tavassoli, Zhigang Chen, Andrew Nguyen, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr. +3 more 2017-08-22 $17,010,000
9449796 Plasma processing system including a symmetrical remote plasma source for minimal ion energy Ankur Agarwal, Rajinder Dhindsa 2016-09-20 $12,933,000
9269546 Plasma reactor with electron beam plasma source having a uniform magnetic field Ming-Feng Wu, Leonid Dorf, Shahid Rauf, Kenneth S. Collins, Nipun Misra 2016-02-23 $9,765,000
9155134 Methods and apparatus for rapidly responsive heat control in plasma processing devices Chunlei Zhang, Richard Fovell, Ezra Robert Gold, James P. Cruse 2015-10-06 $24,740,000
8980760 Methods and apparatus for controlling plasma in a process chamber Ankur Agarwal, Shahid Rauf 2015-03-17 $8,353,000
8895889 Methods and apparatus for rapidly responsive heat control in plasma processing devices Chunlei Zhang, Richard Fovell, Ezra Robert Gold, James P. Cruse 2014-11-25 $12,494,000
8894805 Electron beam plasma source with profiled magnet shield for uniform plasma generation Kallol Bera, Shahid Rauf, Leonid Dorf, Kenneth S. Collins, Gary Leray 2014-11-25 $12,494,000