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Benjamin Schmiege — 26 Patents

Applied Materials: 23 patents #558 of 7,310Top 8%
VAVarian Semiconductor Equipment Associates: 3 patents #187 of 513Top 40%
Santa Clara, CA: #583 of 9,301 inventorsTop 7%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Benjamin Schmiege has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2015 and the most recent in August 2021. Benjamin Schmiege ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Benjamin Schmiege in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2015 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2019.peak 62015: 1 patents20152016: 5 patents20162017: 3 patents20172018: 4 patents20182019: 6 patents20192020: 5 patents20202021: 2 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11094544 Methods of forming self-aligned vias David Thompson, Jeffrey W. Anthis, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Susmit Singha Roy, Ziqing Duan +3 more 2021-08-17 $63,158,000
10906925 Ruthenium precursors for ALD and CVD thin film deposition and uses thereof Jeffrey W. Anthis, David Thompson 2021-02-02 $74,085,000
10760159 Methods and apparatus for depositing yttrium-containing films Lakmal C. Kalutarage, Mark Saly, Thomas Knisley, David Thompson 2020-09-01 $30,946,000
10643840 Selective deposition defects removal by chemical etch Jeffrey W. Anthis, Chang Ke, Pratham Jain, Guoqiang Jian, Michael S. Jackson +3 more 2020-05-05 $58,379,000
10643838 In-situ formation of non-volatile lanthanide thin film precursors and use in ALD and CVD Jeffrey W. Anthis, David Thompson 2020-05-05 $58,379,000
10633743 System and method for controllable non-volatile metal removal Tsung-Liang Chen, Jeffrey W. Anthis, Glen Gilchrist 2020-04-28
10577386 Ruthenium precursors for ALD and CVD thin film deposition and uses thereof Jeffrey W. Anthis, David Thompson 2020-03-03 $21,905,000
10465294 Oxide and metal removal Xikun Wang, Jie Liu, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle, Jeffrey W. Anthis 2019-11-05 $21,874,000
10410865 Methods of forming self-aligned vias David Thompson, Jeffrey W. Anthis, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Susmit Singha Roy, Ziqing Duan +3 more 2019-09-10 $15,043,000
10323054 Precursors for deposition of metal, metal nitride and metal oxide based films of transition metals Jeffrey W. Anthis, David Thompson 2019-06-18 $21,126,000
10297462 Methods of etching films comprising transition metals Jeffrey W. Anthis, David Thompson 2019-05-21 $30,257,000
10242885 Selective dry etching of metal films comprising multiple metal oxides Jeffrey W. Anthis, David Thompson 2019-03-26 $22,929,000
10233547 Methods of etching films with reduced surface roughness Nitin K. Ingle, Srinivas D. Nemani, Jeffrey W. Anthis, Xikun Wang, Jie Liu +1 more 2019-03-19 $17,059,000
10083834 Methods of forming self-aligned vias David Thompson, Jeffrey W. Anthis, Abhijit Basu Mallick, Susmit Singha Roy, Ziqing Duan 2018-09-25 $34,271,000
10000853 System and method for controllable non-volatile metal removal Tsung-Liang Chen, Jeffrey W. Anthis, Glen Gilchrist 2018-06-19
9896770 Methods of etching films with reduced surface roughness Nitin K. Ingle, Srinivas D. Nemani, Jeffrey W. Anthis, Xikun Wang, Jie Liu +1 more 2018-02-20 $63,276,000
9881787 Deposition methods for uniform and conformal hybrid titanium oxide films Chien-Teh Kao, Xuesong Lu, Juno Yu-Ting Huang, Yu Lei, Yung-Hsin Lee +7 more 2018-01-30 $26,789,000
9799533 Methods of etching films comprising transition metals Jeffrey W. Anthis, David Thompson 2017-10-24 $27,129,000
9611552 System and method for controllable non-volatile metal removal Tsung-Liang Chen, Jeffrey W. Anthis, Glen Gilchrist 2017-04-04
9540736 Methods of etching films with reduced surface roughness Nitin K. Ingle, Srinivas D. Nemani, Jeffrey W. Anthis, Xikun Wang, Jie Liu +1 more 2017-01-10 $27,103,000
9528183 Cobalt removal for chamber clean or pre-clean process Kai Wu, Bo Zheng, Sang Ho Yu, Avgerinos V. Gelatos, Bhushan Zope +1 more 2016-12-27 $14,994,000
9514933 Film deposition using spatial atomic layer deposition or pulsed chemical vapor deposition Yu Lei, Srinivas Gandikota, Seshadri Ganguli, Bo Zheng, Rajkumar Jakkaraju +1 more 2016-12-06 $23,225,000
9449843 Selectively etching metals and metal nitrides conformally Mikhail Korolik, Nitin K. Ingle, David Thompson, Jeffrey W. Anthis, David Knapp 2016-09-20 $12,933,000
9390940 Methods of etching films comprising transition metals Jeffrey W. Anthis, David Thompson 2016-07-12 $13,832,000
9309598 Oxide and metal removal Xikun Wang, Jie Liu, Anchuan Wang, Nitin K. Ingle, Jeffrey W. Anthis 2016-04-12 $12,337,000