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Daniel J. Hoffman — 117 Patents

Applied Materials: 83 patents #63 of 7,310Top 1%
AIAdvanced Energy Industries: 19 patents #6 of 173Top 4%
BAB/E Aerospace: 7 patents #80 of 810Top 10%
ASAdvanced Thermal Sciences: 7 patents #3 of 15Top 20%
APAes Global Holdings Pte.: 4 patents #1 of 53Top 2%
UEUS Dept of Energy: 2 patents #577 of 5,099Top 15%
MSMartin Marietta Energy Systems: 1 patents #113 of 298Top 40%
Fort Collins, CO: #4 of 3,421 inventorsTop 1%
Colorado: #59 of 40,980 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #10,533 of 4,157,543Top 1%
117 Patents All Time
Daniel J. Hoffman has been granted 117 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1987 and the most recent in December 2025. Daniel J. Hoffman ranks #10,533 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.25%). Patent records list Daniel J. Hoffman in Fort Collins, CO, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 117 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12505980 Apparatus to produce a waveform Daniel Carter, Randy Heckman, Victor Brouk 2025-12-23
12354836 System, method, and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution in plasma processing systems Victor Brouk, Daniel Carter 2025-07-08
12154759 Apparatus to control a waveform Daniel Carter, Victor Brouk 2024-11-26 $27,155,000
12142452 Systems and methods for monitoring faults, anomalies, and other characteristics of a switched mode ion energy distribution system Daniel Carter, Victor Brouk 2024-11-12 $13,619,000
11978611 Apparatus with switches to produce a waveform Daniel Carter, Randy Heckman, Victor Brouk 2024-05-07 $8,569,000
11615941 System, method, and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution in plasma processing systems Victor Brouk, Daniel Carter 2023-03-28 $11,166,000
11189454 Systems and methods for monitoring faults, anomalies, and other characteristics of a switched mode ion energy distribution system Daniel Carter, Victor Brouk 2021-11-30
11011349 System, method, and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution in plasma processing systems Victor Brouk, Daniel Carter 2021-05-18
10648074 Physical vapor deposition with isotropic neutral and non-isotropic ion velocity distribution at the wafer surface Karl M. Brown, Ying Rui, John Pipitone 2020-05-12 $50,210,000
10400328 Physical vapor deposition system with a source of isotropic ion velocity distribution at the wafer surface Karl M. Brown, Ying Rui, John Pipitone 2019-09-03 $20,988,000
10225919 Projected plasma source Daniel Carter, Karen Peterson, Randy Grilley 2019-03-05
10224186 Plasma source device and methods Scott Polak, Daniel Carter, Karen Peterson, Randy Grilly, Mike Thornton 2019-03-05
10012248 Annular baffle Kallol Bera 2018-07-03 $29,604,000
9856558 Physical vapor deposition method with a source of isotropic ion velocity distribution at the wafer surface Karl M. Brown, Ying Rui, John Pipitone 2018-01-02 $37,336,000
9767988 Method of controlling the switched mode ion energy distribution system Victor Brouk, Daniel Carter 2017-09-19 $16,927,000
9685186 HDD pattern implant system Majeed A. Foad, Jacob Newman, Jose Antonio Marin, Stephen Moffatt, Steven Verhaverbeke 2017-06-20 $22,588,000
9685297 Systems and methods for monitoring faults, anomalies, and other characteristics of a switched mode ion energy distribution system Daniel Carter, Victor Brouk 2017-06-20 $14,405,000
9593411 Physical vapor deposition chamber with capacitive tuning at wafer support Karl M. Brown, Ying Rui, John Pipitone 2017-03-14 $16,778,000
9589767 Systems, methods, and apparatus for minimizing cross coupled wafer surface potentials Victor Brouk 2017-03-07 $14,230,000
9524854 Electrostatic remote plasma source system and method Daniel Carter, Victor Brouk, Karen Peterson, Randy Grilley 2016-12-20 $13,638,000
9435029 Wafer chucking system for advanced plasma ion energy processing systems Victor Brouk 2016-09-06 $10,382,000
9362089 Method of controlling the switched mode ion energy distribution system Victor Brouk, Daniel Carter 2016-06-07 $9,806,000
9309594 System, method and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution of a projected plasma Victor Brouk, Daniel Carter 2016-04-12 $4,103,000
9287086 System, method and apparatus for controlling ion energy distribution Victor Brouk, Randy Heckman 2016-03-15 $1,991,000
9208992 Method for controlling ion energy distribution Victor Brouk, Randy Heckman 2015-12-08 $3,817,000