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David T. Or — 23 Patents

Applied Materials: 23 patents #558 of 7,310Top 8%
Santa Clara, CA: #672 of 9,301 inventorsTop 8%
California: #24,547 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #178,160 of 4,157,543Top 5%
23 Patents All Time
David T. Or has been granted 23 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1998 and the most recent in October 2023. David T. Or ranks #178,160 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.3%). Patent records list David T. Or in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1998 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2015.peak 41998: 1 patents19981999: 1 patents2002: 1 patents20022005: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082011: 2 patents2012: 1 patents20122014: 2 patents2015: 4 patents20152016: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172020: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212022: 3 patents2023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–23 of 23 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11776806 Multi-step pre-clean for selective metal gap fill Xi Cen, Yakuan Yao, Yiming Lai, Kai Wu, Avgerinos V. Gelatos +8 more 2023-10-03 $34,462,000
11380536 Multi-step pre-clean for selective metal gap fill Xi Cen, Yakuan Yao, Yiming Lai, Kai Wu, Avgerinos V. Gelatos +8 more 2022-07-05 $35,888,000
11355391 Method for forming a metal gapfill Xi Cen, Feiyue Ma, Kai Wu, Yu Lei, Kazuya Daito +13 more 2022-06-07 $46,649,000
D942516 Process shield for a substrate processing chamber Manjunatha Koppa, Aravind Kamath, Cheng-Hsiung Tsai, Manjunath H. Venkataswamappa, Steven V. Sansoni 2022-02-01
D933725 Deposition ring for a substrate processing chamber Manjunatha Koppa, Aravind Kamath, Cheng-Hsiung Tsai, Manjunath H. Venkataswamappa, Steven V. Sansoni 2021-10-19
D891382 Process shield for a substrate processing chamber Manjunatha Koppa, Aravind Kamath, Cheng-Hsiung Tsai, Manjunath H. Venkataswamappa, Steven V. Sansoni 2020-07-28
9653318 Directional SiO2 etch using plasma pre-treatment and high-temperature etchant deposition Joshua Collins, Mei Chang 2017-05-16 $17,932,000
9552968 Plasma cleaning apparatus and method Martin Deehan, Matt Cheng-Hsiung Tsai, Nan Lu, Mei Chang 2017-01-24 $20,961,000
9245769 Directional SiO2 etch using plasma pre-treatment and high-temperature etchant deposition Joshua Collins, Mei Chang 2016-01-26 $7,094,000
9202745 Directional SiO2 etch using low-temperature etchant deposition and plasma post-treatment Joshua Collins, Mei Chang 2015-12-01 $8,913,000
9177780 Directional SiO2 etch using plasma pre-treatment and high-temperature etchant deposition Joshua Collins, Mei Chang 2015-11-03 $6,969,000
9004006 Process chamber lid design with built-in plasma source for short lifetime species Chien-Teh Kao, Hyman Lam, Mei Chang, Nicholas R. Denny, Xiaoxiong Yuan 2015-04-14 $19,339,000
8980761 Directional SIO2 etch using low-temperature etchant deposition and plasma post-treatment Joshua Collins, Mei Chang 2015-03-17 $8,353,000
8748322 Silicon oxide recess etch Nancy Fung, Qingjun Zhou, Lina Zhu, Jeremiah T. Pender, Srinivas D. Nemani +3 more 2014-06-10 $12,688,000
8721796 Plasma cleaning apparatus and method Martin Deehan, Matt Cheng-Hsiung Tsai, Nan Lu, Mei Chang 2014-05-13 $10,757,000
8252696 Selective etching of silicon nitride Xinliang Lu, Haichun Yang, Zhenbin Ge, Nan Lu, Chien-Teh Kao +1 more 2012-08-28 $5,542,000
7910853 Direct real-time monitoring and feedback control of RF plasma output for wafer processing Yu-Tzu Chang, William Kuang, Joel M. Huston, Chien-Teh Kao, Mei Chang 2011-03-22 $5,133,000
7871470 Substrate support lift mechanism Eric W. Schieve, Keith Kuang-Kuo Koai, Rene T. Correa 2011-01-18 $15,285,000
D568914 Substrate support lift pin Keith Kuang-Kuo Koai, Hiroyuki Takahama, Takahiro Ito, Koji Ota, Hiroshi Sato 2008-05-13
6887317 Reduced friction lift pin Keith Kuang-Kuo Koai, Hiroyuki Takahama, Takahiro Ito, Koji Ota, Hiroshi Sato 2005-05-03 $16,365,000
6364949 300 mm CVD chamber design for metal-organic thin film deposition Keith Kuang-Kuo Koai, Fufa Chen, Lawrence Chung-Lai Lei 2002-04-02 $41,044,000
5953827 Magnetron with cooling system for process chamber of processing system David Datong Huo, J. Darrel Stickler 1999-09-21 $147,199,000
D403337 High conductance low wall deposition upper shield 1998-12-29