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Bruce E. Adams — 75 Patents

Applied Materials: 65 patents #105 of 7,310Top 2%
LULuxtron: 9 patents #5 of 38Top 15%
ALAwi Licensing: 1 patents #138 of 237Top 60%
Portland, OR: #193 of 9,213 inventorsTop 3%
Oregon: #367 of 28,073 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #25,505 of 4,157,543Top 1%
75 Patents All Time
Bruce E. Adams has been granted 75 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in September 2024. Bruce E. Adams ranks #25,505 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.61%). Patent records list Bruce E. Adams in Portland, OR, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 8 patents in 2013.peak 81992: 3 patents19921993: 1 patents1994: 3 patents1996: 1 patents19961998: 1 patents2001: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022005: 1 patents2006: 2 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 4 patents2009: 3 patents2010: 5 patents20102011: 3 patents2012: 7 patents2013: 8 patents20132014: 8 patents2015: 2 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 7 patents2019: 2 patents20192020: 1 patents2022: 1 patents2024: 3 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 75 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12078547 Etalon thermometry for plasma environments Samuel C. Howells, Alvaro Garcia, Barry Craver, Tony Jefferson GNANAPRAKASA, Lei Lian 2024-09-03 $44,731,000
12031322 Sag-resistant acoustic board Charles G. KRICK, Kimberly Diffenbaugh 2024-07-09
11945045 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Mark Yam, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur +2 more 2024-04-02 $42,223,000
11280686 Temperature measurement using etalons Samuel C. Howells 2022-03-22 $64,102,000
10857623 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Mark Yam, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur +2 more 2020-12-08 $52,028,000
10234772 Overlay error correction Mangesh Ashok BANGAR, Kelly E. Hollar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Huixiong Dai, Jaujiun Chen 2019-03-19 $17,059,000
10181409 Thermal processing apparatus Stephen Moffatt, Douglas E. Holmgren, Samuel C. Howells, Edric Tong, Jiping Li +1 more 2019-01-15 $61,415,000
10147623 Pyrometry filter for thermal process chamber Joseph M. Ranish 2018-12-04 $61,690,000
10074538 Methods for crystallizing a substrate using a plurality of laser pulses and freeze periods Aaron Muir Hunter, Stephen Moffatt 2018-09-11 $27,448,000
9958709 Dynamic optical valve for mitigating non-uniform heating in laser processing 2018-05-01 $18,276,000
9953851 Process sheet resistance uniformity improvement using multiple melt laser exposures Jiping Li, Aaron Muir Hunter, Kim Vellore, Samuel C. Howells, Stephen Moffatt 2018-04-24 $74,029,000
9927622 Multiple beam combiner for laser processing apparatus Stephen Moffatt, Douglas E. Holmgren, Samuel C. Howells, Edric Tong, Jiping Li +1 more 2018-03-27 $21,583,000
9908200 Apparatus and method of improving beam shaping and beam homogenization Samuel C. Howells, Dean Jennings, Jiping Li, Timothy N. Thomas, Stephen Moffatt 2018-03-06 $32,877,000
9864280 Overlay error correction Mangesh Ashok BANGAR, Kelly E. Hollar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Huixiong Dai, Jaujiun Chen 2018-01-09 $16,545,000
9839976 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Mark Yam, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur +2 more 2017-12-12 $38,022,000
9786529 Pyrometry filter for thermal process chamber Joseph M. Ranish 2017-10-10 $63,139,000
9579750 Particle control in laser processing systems Aaron Muir Hunter, Mehran Behdjat 2017-02-28 $9,499,000
9390926 Process sheet resistance uniformity improvement using multiple melt laser exposures Jiping Li, Aaron Muir Hunter, Kim Vellore, Samuel C. Howells, Stephen Moffatt 2016-07-12 $13,832,000
9373511 Methods for crystallizing a substrate using energy pulses and freeze periods Aaron Muir Hunter, Stephen Moffatt 2016-06-21 $17,194,000
9285595 Multiple beam combiner for laser processing apparatus Stephen Moffatt, Douglas E. Holmgren, Samuel C. Howells, Edric Tong, Jiping Li +1 more 2016-03-15 $10,944,000
9146337 Apparatus for speckle reduction, pulse stretching, and beam homogenization Jiping Li, Aaron Muir Hunter, Douglas E. Holmgren, Samuel C. Howells, Theodore P. Moffitt +1 more 2015-09-29 $14,922,000
8970963 Multiple beam combiner for laser processing apparatus Stephen Moffatt, Douglas E. Holmgren, Samuel C. Howells, Edric Tong, Jiping Li +1 more 2015-03-03 $11,301,000
8907247 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of laser radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Mark Yam, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur +2 more 2014-12-09 $24,395,000
8890024 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of continuous wave laser radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Mark Yam, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur +2 more 2014-11-18 $27,822,000
8829392 Apparatus and method of improving beam shaping and beam homogenization Samuel C. Howells, Dean Jennings, Jiping Li, Timothy N. Thomas, Stephen Moffatt 2014-09-09 $30,186,000