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Chad Pollard — 8 Patents

Applied Materials: 8 patents #1,563 of 7,310Top 25%
San Jose, CA: #7,707 of 32,062 inventorsTop 25%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Chad Pollard has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2022 and the most recent in November 2025. Chad Pollard ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Chad Pollard in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2022 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2025.peak 42022: 1 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 4 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12472604 Grounding techniques for ESD polymeric fluid lines Shih-Chiehmr Chang, Hailin Wu 2025-11-18
12459078 In-situ conditioner disk cleaning during CMP Hailin Wu, Shih-Chiehmr Chang, Jianshe Tang, Jeong-Il Oh, Chih-Che Chou +2 more 2025-11-04
12392427 Insulated fluid lines in chemical mechanical polishing Hari Soundararajan, Paul D. Butterfield, Shou-Sung Chang, Haosheng Wu, Calvin Spencer Lee +1 more 2025-08-19
12290897 Fluid-tight electrical connection techniques for semiconductor processing Shou-Sung Chang, Haosheng Wu 2025-05-06
12106976 Steam-assisted single substrate cleaning process and apparatus Jianshe Tang, Wei Lu, Haosheng Wu, Taketo Sekine, Shou-Sung Chang +1 more 2024-10-01 $68,865,000
11833637 Control of steam generation for chemical mechanical polishing Hari Soundararajan, Shou-Sung Chang, Calvin Spencer Lee, Jonathan P. Domin, Shuchivrat Datar +3 more 2023-12-05 $45,995,000
11728185 Steam-assisted single substrate cleaning process and apparatus Jianshe Tang, Wei Lu, Haosheng Wu, Taketo Sekine, Shou-Sung Chang +1 more 2023-08-15 $42,730,000
11251047 Clog detection in a multi-port fluid delivery system Roy C. Nangoy, Allen L. D'Ambra 2022-02-15 $65,265,000