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Benjamin Colombeau — 49 Patents

Applied Materials: 34 patents #313 of 7,310Top 5%
VAVarian Semiconductor Equipment Associates: 10 patents #75 of 513Top 15%
GPGlobalfoundries Singapore Pte.: 5 patents #141 of 828Top 20%
NSNational University Of Singapore: 3 patents #115 of 1,623Top 8%
NUNanyang Technological University: 1 patents #385 of 1,285Top 30%
San Jose, CA: #1,000 of 32,062 inventorsTop 4%
California: #8,285 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #55,592 of 4,157,543Top 2%
49 Patents All Time
Benjamin Colombeau has been granted 49 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2011 and the most recent in November 2025. Benjamin Colombeau ranks #55,592 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.3%). Patent records list Benjamin Colombeau in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2011 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 9 patents in 2022.peak 92011: 2 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 4 patents2017: 3 patents20172018: 1 patents2019: 4 patents20192020: 3 patents2021: 3 patents20212022: 9 patents2023: 1 patents20232024: 4 patents2025: 8 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 49 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12471322 Horizontal GAA nano-wire and nano-slab transistors Hans-Joachim L. Gossmann 2025-11-11
12402351 Gate all around device with fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator Ashish Pal, El Mehdi Bazizi, Myungsun Kim 2025-08-26
12363948 Formation of gate all around device Myungsun Kim, Andy Lo, Eric Davey, Michael Stolfi 2025-07-15
12334337 Integrated flowable low-k gap-fill and plasma treatment Myungsun Kim, Jingmei Liang, Martin Jay Seamons, Michael Stolfi 2025-06-17
12327761 Void-free contact trench fill in gate-all-around FET architecture Nicolas L. Breil, Byeong-Chan Lee 2025-06-10
12261047 Doping techniques Wolfgang Aderhold, Yi-Chiau Huang, Wei Liu, Abhilash J. Mayur 2025-03-25
12249511 Treatments to improve device performance Steven C. H. Hung, Lin Dong, Johanes F. Swenberg, Linlin Wang 2025-03-11
12243941 Conformal oxidation for gate all around nanosheet I/O device Myungsun Kim, Michael Stolfi, Andy Lo 2025-03-04
12183798 Threshold voltage modulation for gate-all-around FET architecture Steven C. H. Hung, Myungsun Kim, Srinivas Gandikota, Yixiong Yang, Jacqueline S. Wrench +1 more 2024-12-31 $49,330,000
12062708 Selective silicon etch for gate all around transistors Michael Stolfi, Myungsun Kim, Sanjay Natarajan 2024-08-13 $69,975,000
12027607 Methods for GAA I/O formation by selective epi regrowth Matthias Bauer, Naved Siddiqui, Phillip Stout 2024-07-02 $85,126,000
11923441 Gate all around I/O engineering Steven C. H. Hung, Andy Lo, Byeong-Chan Lee, Johanes F. Swenberg, Theresa Kramer Guarini +1 more 2024-03-05 $73,319,000
11699755 Stress incorporation in semiconductor devices Ashish Pal, Mehdi Saremi, El Mehdi Bazizi 2023-07-11 $39,838,000
11508828 Selective silicon etch for gate all around transistors Michael Stolfi, Myungsun Kim, Sanjay Natarajan 2022-11-22 $48,755,000
11495500 Horizontal GAA nano-wire and nano-slab transistors Hans-Joachim L. Gossmann 2022-11-08 $47,551,000
11456178 Gate interface engineering with doped layer Steven C. H. Hung, Abhishek Dube, Sheng-Chin Kung, Patricia M. Liu, Malcolm J. Bevan +1 more 2022-09-27 $38,581,000
11450759 Gate all around I/O engineering Steven C. H. Hung, Andy Lo, Byeong-Chan Lee, Johanes F. Swenberg, Theresa Kramer Guarini +1 more 2022-09-20 $25,949,000
11443948 Doping techniques Wolfgang Aderhold, Yi-Chiau Huang, Wei Liu, Abhilash J. Mayur 2022-09-13 $52,107,000
11393916 Methods for GAA I/O formation by selective epi regrowth Matthias Bauer, Naved Siddiqui, Phillip Stout 2022-07-19 $63,937,000
11373871 Methods and apparatus for integrated selective monolayer doping Wolfgang Aderhold, Andy Lo, Yi-Chiau Huang 2022-06-28 $26,475,000
11309404 Integrated CMOS source drain formation with advanced control Tushar Mandrekar, Patricia M. Liu, Suketu Arun Parikh, Matthias Bauer, Dimitri Kioussis +2 more 2022-04-19 $71,820,000
11271097 Cap oxidation for FinFET formation Steven C. H. Hung, Abhishek Dube, Sheng-Chin Kung, Patricia M. Liu, Malcolm J. Bevan +1 more 2022-03-08 $69,139,000
11189479 Diffusion barrier layer Johanes F. Swenberg, Steven C. H. Hung 2021-11-30 $50,552,000
11145761 Horizontal gate all around and FinFET device isolation Shiyu Sun, Naomi Yoshida, Theresa Kramer Guarini, Sung Won Jun, Vanessa Pena +4 more 2021-10-12 $163,741,000
11024746 Gate all-around device Russell Chin Yee Teo 2021-06-01 $74,932,000