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Alan A. Ritchie — 40 Patents

Applied Materials: 33 patents #331 of 7,310Top 5%
Apple: 7 patents #4,315 of 18,612Top 25%
Menlo Park, CA: #173 of 3,774 inventorsTop 5%
California: #11,486 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #78,057 of 4,157,543Top 2%
40 Patents All Time
Alan A. Ritchie has been granted 40 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in February 2024. Alan A. Ritchie ranks #78,057 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.9%). Patent records list Alan A. Ritchie in Menlo Park, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2014.peak 72008: 2 patents20082010: 2 patents2013: 2 patents20132014: 7 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 5 patents2017: 6 patents20172018: 2 patents2020: 3 patents20202021: 2 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents2024: 2 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 40 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11915917 Methods and apparatus for reducing sputtering of a grounded shield in a process chamber John C. Forster, Muhammad M. Rasheed 2024-02-27 $57,915,000
11908998 Liquid electrolyte for lithium metal battery Bernd J. Neudecker, Karl M. Brown, Andrew Basile 2024-02-20 $143,830,000
11811051 Electrochemical cell design with lithium metal anode Karl M. Brown, Lin Ma, Korhan Demirkan, Andrew Basile, Richard M. Mank +1 more 2023-11-07 $200,618,000
11728547 Polymer electrolyte lamination layer for lithium metal battery Lin Ma, Bernd J. Neudecker, Richard M. Mank 2023-08-15 $190,320,000
11309540 Anode structure for a lithium metal battery Karl M. Brown 2022-04-19 $219,368,000
11162170 Methods for reducing material overhang in a feature of a substrate Zhenbin Ge, Jenn-Yue Wang, Sally S. Lou 2021-11-02 $95,673,000
10886567 Liquid electrolyte for a lithium metal battery Paul M. Bayley, Karl M. Brown 2021-01-05 $299,526,000
10847834 Corrosion resistant current collector for lithium metal anode Karl M. Brown 2020-11-24 $169,360,000
10741835 Anode structure for a lithium metal battery Karl M. Brown 2020-08-11 $147,060,000
10692706 Methods and apparatus for reducing sputtering of a grounded shield in a process chamber John C. Forster, Muhammad M. Rasheed 2020-06-23 $29,749,000
10099245 Process kit for deposition and etching John C. Forster, Zhenbin Ge 2018-10-16 $21,789,000
9957601 Apparatus for gas injection in a physical vapor deposition chamber Muhammad M. Rasheed, Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH, Isaac Porras, Keith A. Miller 2018-05-01 $18,276,000
9812303 Configurable variable position closed track magnetron Ryan Edwin Hanson, Xianwei Zhao 2017-11-07 $31,945,000
9695502 Process kit with plasma-limiting gap Donny Young 2017-07-04
9611539 Crystalline orientation and overhang control in collision based RF plasmas Zhenbin Ge, Adolph Miller Allen 2017-04-04 $16,159,000
9593410 Methods and apparatus for stable substrate processing with multiple RF power supplies Zhenbin Ge 2017-03-14 $16,778,000
9593417 Gas line weldment design and process for CVD aluminum Wei Ti Lee, Ted Guo, Steve H. Chiao 2017-03-14 $16,778,000
9580796 Deposition apparatus and methods to reduce deposition asymmetry Michael S. Cox 2017-02-28 $9,499,000
9404174 Pinned target design for RF capacitive coupled plasma Donny Young 2016-08-02 $10,698,000
9340866 Substrate support with radio frequency (RF) return path Donny Young, Wei Wang, Ananthkrishna Jupudi, Thanh X. Nguyen, Kirankumar Neelasandra SAVANDAIAH 2016-05-17 $7,135,000
9315891 Methods for processing a substrate using multiple substrate support positions Joung Joo Lee, William Johanson, Keith A. Miller 2016-04-19 $19,369,000
9303311 Substrate processing system with mechanically floating target assembly Donny Young, Uday Pai, Muhammad M. Rasheed, Keith A. Miller 2016-04-05 $9,374,000
9255322 Substrate processing system having symmetric RF distribution and return paths Donny Young, Muhammad M. Rasheed, Keith A. Miller 2016-02-09 $18,126,000
9218961 Methods of forming a metal containing layer on a substrate with high uniformity and good profile control Zhenbin Ge, Adolph Miller Allen 2015-12-22 $10,069,000
9177763 Method and apparatus for measuring pressure in a physical vapor deposition chamber Muhammad M. Rasheed, Isaac Porras, Keith A. Miller 2015-11-03 $6,969,000