Eric Lau — 12 Patents at Applied Materials

Eric Lau has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2018 and the most recent in July 2025. Eric Lau ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Eric Lau in Santa Clara, CA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12343840	Control of processing parameters for substrate polishing with substrate precession	Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Benjamin Cherian, Brian J. Brown +1 more	2025-07-01
11931853	Control of processing parameters for substrate polishing with angularly distributed zones using cost function	Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu, Benjamin Cherian, Brian J. Brown +1 more	2024-03-19	$54,086,000
11869815	Asymmetry correction via oriented wafer loading	Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu	2024-01-09	$49,156,000
11764069	Asymmetry correction via variable relative velocity of a wafer	Jimin Zhang, Brian J. Brown, Ekaterina A. Mikhaylichenko, Jeonghoon Oh, Gerald Alonzo	2023-09-19	$44,467,000
11400560	Retaining ring design	Jeonghoon Oh, Charles C. Garretson, Andrew J. Nagengast, Steven M. Zuniga, Edwin C. Suarez +2 more	2022-08-02	$46,822,000
11282755	Asymmetry correction via oriented wafer loading	Charles C. Garretson, Huanbo Zhang, Zhize Zhu	2022-03-22	$64,102,000
10610994	Polishing system with local area rate control and oscillation mode	Hui Chen, King Yi Heung, Chih Chung Chou, Edwin C. Suarez, Garrett H. Sin +2 more	2020-04-07	$24,481,000
10589399	Textured small pad for chemical mechanical polishing	Jeonghoon Oh, Edwin C. Suarez, Jason Garcheung Fung, King Yi Heung, Ashwin CHOCKALINGAM +3 more	2020-03-17	$17,260,000
10434623	Local area polishing system and polishing pad assemblies for a polishing system	Hui Chen, King Yi Heung, Wei-Cheng Lee, Chih Chung Chou, Edwin C. Suarez +3 more	2019-10-08	$26,143,000
10256111	Chemical mechanical polishing automated recipe generation	King Yi Heung, Charles C. Garretson, Jun Qian, Thomas H. Osterheld, Shuchivrat Datar +1 more	2019-04-09	$19,096,000
10076817	Orbital polishing with small pad	Hung Chih Chen, Paul D. Butterfield, Jay Gurusamy, Jason Garcheung Fung, Shou-Sung Chang +1 more	2018-09-18	$94,059,000
9873179	Carrier for small pad for chemical mechanical polishing	Hui Chen, Steven M. Zuniga, Hung Chih Chen, Garrett H. Sin, Shou-Sung Chang	2018-01-23	$41,300,000

Eric Lau — 12 Patents

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