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Benjamin Bierman — 14 Patents

Applied Materials: 14 patents #975 of 7,310Top 15%
Milpitas, CA: #368 of 3,192 inventorsTop 15%
California: #43,920 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #332,869 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time
Benjamin Bierman has been granted 14 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2004. Benjamin Bierman ranks #332,869 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.0%). Patent records list Benjamin Bierman in Milpitas, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2004Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2000.peak 51998: 2 patents19981999: 4 patents19992000: 5 patents20002001: 1 patents20012002: 1 patents20022004: 1 patents2004

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6803546 Thermally processing a substrate Ryan Boas, Ajit Balakrishna, Brian Haas, Dean Jennings, Wolfgang Aderhold +2 more 2004-10-12 $28,243,000
6395363 Sloped substrate support David S. Ballance, Robert Haney, David W. LaCourt 2002-05-28 $75,308,000
6215106 Thermally processing a substrate Ryan Boas, Ajit Balakrishna, Brian Haas, Dean Jennings, Wolfgang Aderhold 2001-04-10 $95,964,000
6157106 Magnetically-levitated rotor system for an RTP chamber James V. Tietz 2000-12-05 $73,043,000
6133152 Co-rotating edge ring extension for use in a semiconductor processing chamber Meredith J. Williams, David S. Ballance, Brian Haas, Paul Deaton, James V. Tietz 2000-10-17 $75,805,000
6123766 Method and apparatus for achieving temperature uniformity of a substrate Meredith J. Williams, David S. Ballance, Paul Deaton, Brian Haas, Nobuyuki Takahashi +1 more 2000-09-26 $91,857,000
6090210 Multi-zone gas flow control in a process chamber David S. Ballance, James V. Tietz 2000-07-18 $139,716,000
6035100 Reflector cover for a semiconductor processing chamber David S. Ballance, James V. Tietz, Brian Haas, Meredith J. Williams, Paul Deaton 2000-03-07 $83,205,000
5960555 Method and apparatus for purging the back side of a substrate during chemical vapor processing Paul Deaton, Meredith J. Williams, Brian Haas, David S. Ballance, James V. Tietz 1999-10-05 $73,011,000
5920797 Method for gaseous substrate support David S. Ballance, James V. Tietz, Brian Haas 1999-07-06 $75,710,000
5884412 Method and apparatus for purging the back side of a substrate during chemical vapor processing James V. Tietz, David S. Ballance 1999-03-23 $25,350,000
5879128 Lift pin and support pin apparatus for a processing chamber James V. Tietz 1999-03-09 $25,183,000
5848889 Semiconductor wafer support with graded thermal mass James V. Tietz, David S. Ballance 1998-12-15 $36,552,000
5781693 Gas introduction showerhead for an RTP chamber with upper and lower transparent plates and gas flow therebetween David S. Ballance, James V. Tietz 1998-07-14 $20,241,000