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Bryan Pu — 42 Patents

Applied Materials: 33 patents #331 of 7,310Top 5%
Lam Research: 3 patents #821 of 2,128Top 40%
San Jose, CA: #1,306 of 32,062 inventorsTop 5%
California: #10,667 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #72,062 of 4,157,543Top 2%
42 Patents All Time
Bryan Pu has been granted 42 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in March 2020. Bryan Pu ranks #72,062 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.7%). Patent records list Bryan Pu in San Jose, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 42 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10593520 Temperature adjusting apparatus and method for a focus ring Lei Wu, Rubin Ye 2020-03-17
8936696 Method and apparatus for shaping a magnetic field in a magnetic field-enhanced plasma reactor Roger Alan Lindley, Jingbao Liu, Keiji Horioka 2015-01-20 $39,758,000
8609546 Pulsed bias plasma process to control microloading Wonchul Lee, Qian Fu, Shenjian Liu 2013-12-17 $7,175,000
8518282 Method of controlling etch microloading for a tungsten-containing layer Wonchul Lee, Qian Fu, Shenjian Liu 2013-08-27 $4,348,000
8231799 Plasma reactor apparatus with multiple gas injection zones having time-changing separate configurable gas compositions for each zone Kallol Bera, Xiaoye Zhao, Kenny L. Doan, Ezra Robert Gold, Paul Brillhart +2 more 2012-07-31 $11,506,000
8187415 Plasma etch reactor with distribution of etch gases across a wafer surface and a polymer oxidizing gas in an independently fed center gas zone Jong Mun Kim, Jingbao Liu 2012-05-29 $9,160,000
7879186 Method and apparatus for shaping a magnetic field in a magnetic field-enhanced plasma reactor Roger Alan Lindley, Jingbao Liu, Keiji Horioka 2011-02-01 $7,897,000
7838430 Plasma control using dual cathode frequency mixing Steven C. Shannon, Dennis S. Grimard, Theodoros Panagopoulos, Daniel J. Hoffman, Michael G. Chafin +4 more 2010-11-23 $4,531,000
7807064 Halogen-free amorphous carbon mask etch having high selectivity to photoresist Jong Mun Kim, Judy Wang, Ajey M. Joshi, Jingbao Liu 2010-10-05 $8,418,000
7736914 Plasma control using dual cathode frequency mixing and controlling the level of polymer formation Jingbao Liu, Taeho Shin 2010-06-15 $8,018,000
7629255 Method for reducing microloading in etching high aspect ratio structures Qian Fu, Shenjian Liu, Wonchul Lee 2009-12-08 $15,691,000
7540971 Plasma etch process using polymerizing etch gases across a wafer surface and additional polymer managing or controlling gases in independently fed gas zones with time and spatial modulation of gas content Kallol Bera, Xiaoye Zhao, Kenny L. Doan, Ezra Robert Gold, Paul Brillhart +2 more 2009-06-02 $19,554,000
7541292 Plasma etch process with separately fed carbon-lean and carbon-rich polymerizing etch gases in independent inner and outer gas injection zones Kallol Bera, Xiaoye Zhao, Kenny L. Doan, Ezra Robert Gold, Paul Brillhart +2 more 2009-06-02 $19,554,000
7431859 Plasma etch process using polymerizing etch gases with different etch and polymer-deposition rates in different radial gas injection zones with time modulation Kallol Bera, Xiaoye Zhao, Kenny L. Doan, Ezra Robert Gold, Paul Brillhart +2 more 2008-10-07 $9,830,000
7432210 Process to open carbon based hardmask Judy Wang, Shing-Li Sung, Shawming Ma 2008-10-07 $9,830,000
7422654 Method and apparatus for shaping a magnetic field in a magnetic field-enhanced plasma reactor Roger Alan Lindley, Jingbao Liu, Keiji Horioka 2008-09-09 $16,131,000
7374636 Method and apparatus for providing uniform plasma in a magnetic field enhanced plasma reactor Keiji Horioka, Chun Yan, Taeho Shin, Roger Alan Lindley, Panyin Hughes +4 more 2008-05-20 $13,768,000
7316199 Method and apparatus for controlling the magnetic field intensity in a plasma enhanced semiconductor wafer processing chamber Keiji Horioka, Chun Yan, Taeho Shin, Roger Alan Lindley, Qi Li +3 more 2008-01-08 $14,915,000
7316761 Apparatus for uniformly etching a dielectric layer Kenny L. Doan, Yunsang Kim, Mahmoud Dahimene, Jingbao Liu, Hongqing Shan +1 more 2008-01-08 $14,915,000
6916399 Temperature controlled window with a fluid supply system Yan Rozenzon, Gil Lavi, Evans Lee, Dong Ho Choi, Matt Hamrah +3 more 2005-07-12
6829056 Monitoring dimensions of features at different locations in the processing of substrates Michael Barnes, John D. Holland, II, Hongqing Shan, Mohit Jain, Zhifeng Sui +5 more 2004-12-07
6825618 Distributed inductively-coupled plasma source and circuit for coupling induction coils to RF power supply Hongching Shan, Claes Bjorkman, Kenny L. Doan, Mike Welch, Richard R. Mett 2004-11-30
6797639 Dielectric etch chamber with expanded process window James D. Carducci, Hamid Noorbakhsh, Evans Lee, Hongching Shan, Claes Bjorkman +3 more 2004-09-28 $20,273,000
6787475 Flash step preparatory to dielectric etch Zhuxu Wang, Jingbao Liu, Claes Bjorkman 2004-09-07
6716302 Dielectric etch chamber with expanded process window James D. Carducci, Hamid Noorbakhsh, Evans Lee, Hongching Shan, Claes Bjorkman +3 more 2004-04-06 $31,300,000