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Darin Bivens — 11 Patents

Applied Materials: 11 patents #1,208 of 7,310Top 20%
San Mateo, CA: #598 of 3,727 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Darin Bivens has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in October 2013. Darin Bivens ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Darin Bivens in San Mateo, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2011.peak 62008: 2 patents20082009: 2 patents20092011: 6 patents20112013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8568553 Method and apparatus for photomask plasma etching Ajay Kumar, Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Richard Lewington, Amitabh Sabharwal, Sheeba J. Panayil +1 more 2013-10-29 $9,867,000
8012366 Process for etching a transparent workpiece including backside endpoint detection steps Richard Lewington, Michael N. Grimbergen, Khiem K. Nguyen, Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Ajay Kumar 2011-09-06 $7,367,000
8002946 Mask etch plasma reactor with cathode providing a uniform distribution of etch rate Richard Lewington, Michael N. Grimbergen, Khiem K. Nguyen, Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Ajay Kumar 2011-08-23 $7,598,000
7967930 Plasma reactor for processing a workpiece and having a tunable cathode Richard Lewington, Michael N. Grimbergen, Khiem K. Nguyen, Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Ajay Kumar 2011-06-28 $3,915,000
7964818 Method and apparatus for photomask etching Elmira Ryabova, Richard Lewington, Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Amitabh Sabharwal 2011-06-21 $5,178,000
7943005 Method and apparatus for photomask plasma etching Ajay Kumar, Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Richard Lewington, Amitabh Sabharwal, Sheeba J. Panayil +1 more 2011-05-17 $13,215,000
7909961 Method and apparatus for photomask plasma etching Ajay Kumar, Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Richard Lewington, Amitabh Sabharwal, Sheeba J. Panayil +1 more 2011-03-22 $5,133,000
7520999 Method of processing a workpiece in a plasma reactor with dynamic adjustment of the plasma source power applicator and the workpiece relative to one another Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Richard Lewington, Ajay Kumar, Ibrahim M. Ibrahim, Michael N. Grimbergen +2 more 2009-04-21 $9,285,000
7504041 Method of processing a workpiece in a plasma reactor employing a dynamically adjustable plasma source power applicator Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Richard Lewington, Ajay Kumar, Ibrahim M. Ibrahim, Michael N. Grimbergen +2 more 2009-03-17 $10,205,000
7431797 Plasma reactor with a dynamically adjustable plasma source power applicator Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Richard Lewington, Ajay Kumar, Ibrahim M. Ibrahim, Michael N. Grimbergen +2 more 2008-10-07 $9,830,000
7419551 Plasma reactor with apparatus for dynamically adjusting the plasma source power applicator and the workpiece relative to one another Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Richard Lewington, Ajay Kumar, Ibrahim M. Ibrahim, Michael N. Grimbergen +2 more 2008-09-02 $55,101,000