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Ankur Agarwal — 20 Patents

Applied Materials: 17 patents #793 of 7,310Top 15%
SLSpansion Llc.: 1 patents #435 of 769Top 60%
AMD: 1 patents #5,803 of 9,280Top 65%
Fremont, CA: #823 of 9,298 inventorsTop 9%
California: #29,208 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #214,803 of 4,157,543Top 6%
20 Patents All Time
Ankur Agarwal has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in December 2025. Ankur Agarwal ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Ankur Agarwal in Fremont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2013.peak 32010: 1 patents20102013: 3 patents20132015: 3 patents20152016: 3 patents20162017: 1 patents20172018: 3 patents20182019: 2 patents20192020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–20 of 20 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12487986 Generating information integrity instructions using a generative model Sebastián Soto 2025-12-02
12450081 System and method for managing size of clusters in a computing environment Manoj Krishnan, Rahul Chandrasekaran, Prafulla Mahindrakar, Ravi Cherukupalli 2025-10-21
10790180 Electrostatic chuck with variable pixelated magnetic field Chih-Hsun Hsu, Tza-Jing Gung, Benjamin Schwarz, Shahid Rauf, Vijay D. Parkhe +2 more 2020-09-29 $24,138,000
10573493 Inductively coupled plasma apparatus Valentin N. Todorow, Samer Banna, Zhigang Chen, TSE-CHIANG WANG, Andrew Nguyen +2 more 2020-02-25 $22,337,000
10460968 Electrostatic chuck with variable pixelated magnetic field Chih-Hsun Hsu, Tza-Jing Gung, Benjamin Schwarz, Shahid Rauf, Vijay D. Parkhe +2 more 2019-10-29 $23,960,000
10395896 Method and apparatus for ion energy distribution manipulation for plasma processing chambers that allows ion energy boosting through amplitude modulation Wonseok Lee, Kartik Ramaswamy, Haitao Wang 2019-08-27 $34,720,000
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
9978606 Methods for atomic level resolution and plasma processing control 2018-05-22 $29,000,000
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
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
9520294 Atomic layer etch process using an electron beam Rajinder Dhindsa, Shahid Rauf 2016-12-13 $24,422,000
9449796 Plasma processing system including a symmetrical remote plasma source for minimal ion energy Ajit Balakrishna, Rajinder Dhindsa 2016-09-20 $12,933,000
9362131 Fast atomic layer etch process using an electron beam Shahid Rauf, Kartik Ramaswamy 2016-06-07 $15,363,000
8980760 Methods and apparatus for controlling plasma in a process chamber Ajit Balakrishna, Shahid Rauf 2015-03-17 $8,353,000
8974684 Synchronous embedded radio frequency pulsing for plasma etching Samer Banna 2015-03-10 $17,071,000
8962488 Synchronized radio frequency pulsing for plasma etching Bryan Liao, Katsumasa Kawasaki, Yashaswini B. Pattar, Sergio Fukuda Shoji, Duy D. Nguyen +3 more 2015-02-24 $19,887,000
8562742 Apparatus for radial delivery of gas to a chamber and methods of use thereof Jared Ahmad Lee, Martin Jeff Salinas, Ezra Robert Gold, James P. Cruse, Aniruddha Pal +1 more 2013-10-22 $10,239,000
8404598 Synchronized radio frequency pulsing for plasma etching Bryan Liao, Katsumasa Kawasaki, Yashaswini B. Pattar, Sergio Fukuda Shoji, Duy D. Nguyen +3 more 2013-03-26 $10,775,000
8382999 Pulsed plasma high aspect ratio dielectric process Kenneth S. Collins, Shahid Rauf, Kartik Ramaswamy, Thorsten Lill 2013-02-26 $7,365,000
7704878 Contact spacer formation using atomic layer deposition Minh Van Ngo, Angela T. Hui, Amol Joshi, Wenmei Li, Ning Cheng +1 more 2010-04-27 $10,775,000