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Erica Chen — 21 Patents

Applied Materials: 21 patents #616 of 7,310Top 9%
Cupertino, CA: #794 of 6,989 inventorsTop 15%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Erica Chen has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2017 and the most recent in August 2025. Erica Chen ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Erica Chen in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2017 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2017.peak 42017: 4 patents20172018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents20192020: 2 patents20202021: 4 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 3 patents20232024: 2 patents20242025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12384185 Methods, systems, and apparatus for inkjet printing self-assembled monoloayer (SAM) structures on substrates Yingdong Luo, Rami Hourani, Xiaopei Deng, Kang Luo, Ludovic Godet 2025-08-12
12288672 Methods and apparatus for carbon compound film deposition Qiwei Liang, Srinivas D. Nemani, Chentsau Chris Ying, Ellie Yieh, Nithin Thomas ALEX 2025-04-29
12111572 Methods of greytone imprint lithography to fabricate optical devices Hao Tang, Kang Luo, Yongan Xu 2024-10-08 $69,128,000
11955333 Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate Jethro Tannos, Bhargav S. Citla, Srinivas D. Nemani, Ellie Yieh, Joshua Rubnitz +3 more 2024-04-09 $47,694,000
11735420 Wafer treatment for achieving defect-free self-assembled monolayers Chang Ke, Lei Zhou, Biao Liu, Cheng Pan, Yuanhong Guo +5 more 2023-08-22 $40,609,000
11709423 Methods of greytone imprint lithography to fabricate optical devices Hao Tang, Kang Luo, Yongan Xu 2023-07-25 $93,796,000
11682556 Methods of improving graphene deposition for processes using microwave surface-wave plasma on dielectric materials Jie Zhou, Qiwei Liang, Chentsau Chris Ying, Srinivas D. Nemani, Ellie Yieh 2023-06-20 $48,645,000
11488856 Methods for gapfill in high aspect ratio structures Pramit Manna, Ludovic Godet, Rui Cheng, Ziqing Duan, Abhijit Basu Mallick +1 more 2022-11-01 $32,150,000
11289331 Methods for graphene formation using microwave surface-wave plasma on dielectric materials Jie Zhou, Qiwei Liang, Chentsau Chris Ying, Srinivas D. Nemani, Ellie Yieh 2022-03-29 $46,373,000
11101174 Gap fill deposition process Hao Jiang, Nikolaos Bekiaris, Mehul Naik 2021-08-24 $92,770,000
11049731 Methods for film modification Chentsau Chris Ying, Bhargav S. Citla, Jethro Tannos, Matthew August Mattson 2021-06-29 $47,858,000
10964527 Residual removal Jong Mun Kim, Biao Liu, Cheng Pan, Chentsau Ying, Srinivas D. Nemani +1 more 2021-03-30 $120,425,000
10892161 Enhanced selective deposition process Biao Liu, Cheng Pan, Srinivas D. Nemani, Chang Ke, Lei Zhou 2021-01-12 $84,921,000
10811303 Methods for gapfill in high aspect ratio structures Pramit Manna, Ludovic Godet, Rui Cheng, Ziqing Duan, Abhijit Basu Mallick +1 more 2020-10-20 $40,793,000
10770292 Wafer treatment for achieving defect-free self-assembled monolayers Chang Ke, Lei Zhou, Biao Liu, Cheng Pan, Yuanhong Guo +5 more 2020-09-08 $22,964,000
10192775 Methods for gapfill in high aspect ratio structures Pramit Manna, Ludovic Godet, Rui Cheng, Ziqing Duan, Abhijit Basu Mallick +1 more 2019-01-29 $20,450,000
10096512 Gapfill film modification for advanced CMP and recess flow Ludovic Godet, Srinivas D. Nemani, Ellie Yieh 2018-10-09 $16,738,000
9777378 Advanced process flow for high quality FCVD films Srinivas D. Nemani, Ludovic Godet, Jun Xue, Ellie Yieh 2017-10-03 $36,306,000
9773675 3D material modification for advanced processing Ludovic Godet, Srinivas D. Nemani, Jun Xue, Ellie Yieh, Gary E. Dickerson 2017-09-26 $39,692,000
9620407 3D material modification for advanced processing Ludovic Godet, Srinivas D. Nemani, Jun Xue, Ellie Yieh, Gary E. Dickerson 2017-04-11 $31,319,000
9595467 Air gap formation in interconnection structure by implantation process Jun Xue, Ludovic Godet, Srinivas D. Nemani, Ellie Yieh 2017-03-14 $16,778,000