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Anchuan Wang — 142 Patents

Applied Materials: 141 patents #21 of 7,310Top 1%
Northwestern University: 1 patents #1,629 of 3,846Top 45%
San Jose, CA: #120 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #1,116 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #6,988 of 4,157,543Top 1%
142 Patents All Time
Anchuan Wang has been granted 142 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in September 2025. Anchuan Wang ranks #6,988 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.17%). Patent records list Anchuan Wang in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 31 patents in 2016.peak 312003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 2 patents2009: 4 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 3 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 3 patents2014: 9 patents2015: 19 patents20152016: 31 patents2017: 16 patents2018: 9 patents20182019: 13 patents2020: 4 patents2021: 4 patents20212022: 3 patents2023: 6 patents2024: 2 patents20242025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 142 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12431360 Selective etching between silicon-and-germanium-containing materials with varying germanium concentrations Jiayin Huang, Zihui Li, Nitin K. Ingle 2025-09-30
12394631 Selective etching of silicon-and-germanium-containing materials with increased surface purities Jiayin Huang, Zihui Li, Yi Jin, Nitin K. Ingle 2025-08-19
12334358 Integration processes utilizing boron-doped silicon materials Takehito Koshizawa, Karthik Janakiraman, Rui Cheng, Krishna Nittala, Menghui Li +8 more 2025-06-17
12300501 Systems and methods for selective metal compound removal Zhenjiang Cui 2025-05-13
12272563 Metal oxide directional removal Baiwei Wang, Rohan Puligoru Reddy, Xiaolin Chen, Zhenjiang Cui 2025-04-08
12087595 Metal deposition and etch in high aspect-ratio features Baiwei Wang, Rohan Puligoru Reddy, Xiaolin Chen, Zhenjiang Cui 2024-09-10 $81,152,000
11984325 Selective removal of transition metal nitride materials Baiwei Wang, Xiaolin Chen, Rohan Puligoru Reddy, Oliver Jan, Zhenjiang Cui 2024-05-14 $61,768,000
11798813 Selective removal of ruthenium-containing materials Baiwei Wang, Xiaolin Chen, Rohan Puligoru Reddy, Oliver Jan, Zhenjiang Cui 2023-10-24 $34,065,000
11769671 Systems and methods for selective metal compound removal Zhenjiang Cui 2023-09-26 $66,272,000
11764058 Three-color 3D DRAM stack and methods of making Arvind Kumar, Mahendra Pakala, Ellie Yieh, John Tolle, Thomas Kirschenheiter +1 more 2023-09-19 $44,467,000
11735467 Airgap formation processes Ashish Pal, Gaurav Thareja, Sankuei Lin, Ching-Mei Hsu, Nitin K. Ingle +1 more 2023-08-22 $40,609,000
11728177 Systems and methods for nitride-containing film removal Baiwei Wang, Oliver Jan, Rohan Puligoru Reddy, Xiaolin Chen, Zhenjiang Cui 2023-08-15 $42,730,000
11631589 Metal etch in high aspect-ratio features Baiwei Wang, Xiaolin Chen, Rohan Puligoru Reddy, Oliver Jan, Zhenjiang Cui 2023-04-18 $36,767,000
11488835 Systems and methods for tungsten-containing film removal Zhenjiang Cui, Rohan Puligoru Reddy 2022-11-01 $32,150,000
11462411 Gate contact over active regions Gaurav Thareja, Keyvan Kashefizadeh, Xikun Wang, Sanjay Natarajan, Sean M. Seutter +1 more 2022-10-04 $41,370,000
11335565 Systems and methods to form airgaps Zhijun Chen, Lin Xu 2022-05-17 $39,228,000
11211286 Airgap formation processes Ashish Pal, Gaurav Thareja, Sankuei Lin, Ching-Mei Hsu, Nitin K. Ingle +1 more 2021-12-28 $93,125,000
11062921 Systems and methods for aluminum-containing film removal Zhenjiang Cui, Rohan Puligoru Reddy, Xiaolin Chen 2021-07-13 $86,517,000
11004689 Thermal silicon etch Zihui Li, Rui Cheng, Nitin K. Ingle, Abhijit Basu Mallick 2021-05-11 $77,987,000
11004687 Gate contact over active processes Gaurav Thareja, Keyvan Kashefizadeh, Xikun Wang, Sanjay Natarajan, Sean M. Seutter +1 more 2021-05-11 $77,987,000
10872778 Systems and methods utilizing solid-phase etchants Zhijun Chen, Chia-Ling Kao, Nitin K. Ingle 2020-12-22 $92,387,000
10755941 Self-limiting selective etching systems and methods Zhijun Chen, Chia-Ling Kao, Nitin K. Ingle 2020-08-25 $29,525,000
10692880 3D NAND high aspect ratio structure etch Zhenjiang Cui, Hanshen Zhang, Zhijun Chen, Nitin K. Ingle 2020-06-23 $29,749,000
10615047 Systems and methods to form airgaps Zhijun Chen, Lin Xu 2020-04-07 $24,481,000
10497579 Water-free etching methods Zhijun Chen, Lin Xu, Nitin K. Ingle 2019-12-03 $22,017,000