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Ellie Yieh — 178 Patents

Applied Materials: 175 patents #12 of 7,310Top 1%
MIMicromaterials: 3 patents #15 of 34Top 45%
University of California: 2 patents #4,561 of 18,278Top 25%
San Jose, CA: #65 of 32,062 inventorsTop 1%
California: #716 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #4,353 of 4,157,543Top 1%
178 Patents All Time
Ellie Yieh has been granted 178 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1994 and the most recent in July 2025. Ellie Yieh ranks #4,353 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.10%). Patent records list Ellie Yieh in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1994 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2003.peak 151994: 1 patents19941998: 1 patents1999: 4 patents2000: 6 patents20002001: 5 patents2002: 13 patents2003: 15 patents20032004: 9 patents2005: 5 patents2006: 10 patents20062007: 2 patents2008: 2 patents2009: 5 patents20092010: 5 patents2011: 4 patents2012: 5 patents20122014: 2 patents2015: 1 patents2016: 8 patents20162017: 9 patents2018: 7 patents2019: 6 patents20192020: 13 patents2021: 10 patents2022: 7 patents20222023: 9 patents2024: 7 patents2025: 7 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 178 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12372874 System architecture of manufacturing of semiconductor wafers Dmitry Lubomirsky, Huixiong Dai 2025-07-29
12347674 Directional selective deposition Bhargav S. Citla, Soham Asrani, Joshua Rubnitz, Srinivas D. Nemani 2025-07-01
12315718 Forming films with improved film quality Bhargav S. Citla, Srinivas D. Nemani, Purvam Modi 2025-05-27
12305279 Ultra high-k hafnium oxide and hafnium zirconium oxide films Harshil Kashyap, Andrew C. Kummel, Ajay Kumar Yadav, Keith Tatseun Wong, Srinivas D. Nemani 2025-05-20
12288672 Methods and apparatus for carbon compound film deposition Qiwei Liang, Srinivas D. Nemani, Chentsau Chris Ying, Erica Chen, Nithin Thomas ALEX 2025-04-29
12262559 Monolithic complementary field-effect transistors having carbon-doped release layers Andrew Cockburn, Vanessa Pena, Daniel Philippe Cellier, John Tolle, Thomas Kirschenheiter +3 more 2025-03-25
12204246 Metal oxide resist patterning with electrical field guided post-exposure bake Huixiong Dai, Mangesh Ashok BANGAR, Srinivas D. Nemani, Steven Hiloong WELCH, Dmitry Lubomirsky 2025-01-21
12181801 Chamber and methods of treating a substrate after exposure to radiation Dmitry Lubomirsky, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Qiwei Liang, Hyunjun Kim 2024-12-31 $49,330,000
12085858 Photoresist patterning process Huixiong Dai, Srinivas D. Nemani, Steven Hiloong WELCH, Mangesh Ashok BANGAR 2024-09-10 $81,152,000
11955333 Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate Jethro Tannos, Bhargav S. Citla, Srinivas D. Nemani, Joshua Rubnitz, Erica Chen +3 more 2024-04-09 $47,694,000
11914299 Lithography process window enhancement for photoresist patterning Huixiong Dai, Mangesh Ashok BANGAR, Srinivas D. Nemani, Christopher S. Ngai 2024-02-27 $57,915,000
11881411 High pressure annealing process for metal containing materials Kaushal K. Singh, Mei-Yee Shek, Srinivas D. Nemani 2024-01-23 $48,508,000
11880137 Film structure for electric field guided photoresist patterning process Huixiong Dai, Mangesh Ashok BANGAR, Srinivas D. Nemani, Steven Hiloong WELCH, Christopher S. Ngai 2024-01-23 $48,508,000
11862458 Directional selective deposition Bhargav S. Citla, Soham Asrani, Joshua Rubnitz, Srinivas D. Nemani 2024-01-02 $40,045,000
11798606 Additive patterning of semiconductor film stacks John O. Dukovic, Srinivas D. Nemani, Praburam Gopalraja, Steven Hiloong WELCH, Bhargav S. Citla 2023-10-24 $34,065,000
11764058 Three-color 3D DRAM stack and methods of making Arvind Kumar, Mahendra Pakala, John Tolle, Thomas Kirschenheiter, Anchuan Wang +1 more 2023-09-19 $44,467,000
11756828 Cluster processing system for forming a transition metal material Keith Tatseun Wong, Srinivas D. Nemani 2023-09-12 $47,983,000
11756803 Gas delivery system for high pressure processing chamber Qiwei Liang, Srinivas D. Nemani, Sean S. Kang, Adib Khan 2023-09-12 $47,983,000
11705337 Tungsten defluorination by high pressure treatment Keith Tatseun Wong, Thomas Jongwan Kwon, Sean S. Kang 2023-07-18 $58,990,000
11682556 Methods of improving graphene deposition for processes using microwave surface-wave plasma on dielectric materials Jie Zhou, Erica Chen, Qiwei Liang, Chentsau Chris Ying, Srinivas D. Nemani 2023-06-20 $48,645,000
11650506 Film structure for electric field guided photoresist patterning process Huixiong Dai, Mangesh Ashok BANGAR, Christopher S. Ngai, Srinivas D. Nemani, Steven Hiloong WELCH 2023-05-16 $64,199,000
11631591 Methods for depositing dielectric material Bhargav S. Citla, Jethro Tannos, Jingyi Li, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Zhong Qiang Hua +1 more 2023-04-18 $36,767,000
11566325 Silicon carbonitride gapfill with tunable carbon content Mei-Yee Shek, Bhargav S. Citla, Joshua Rubnitz, Jethro Tannos, Chentsau Chris Ying +1 more 2023-01-31 $29,381,000
11527421 Gas delivery system for high pressure processing chamber Qiwei Liang, Srinivas D. Nemani, Sean S. Kang, Adib Khan 2022-12-13
11429026 Lithography process window enhancement for photoresist patterning Huixiong Dai, Mangesh Ashok BANGAR, Srinivas D. Nemani, Christopher S. Ngai 2022-08-30 $41,861,000