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Gerhard Schneider — 13 Patents

Applied Materials: 13 patents #1,046 of 7,310Top 15%
Cupertino, CA: #1,272 of 6,989 inventorsTop 20%
California: #47,433 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #362,438 of 4,157,543Top 9%
13 Patents All Time
Gerhard Schneider has been granted 13 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in June 2009. Gerhard Schneider ranks #362,438 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 8.7%). Patent records list Gerhard Schneider in Cupertino, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2009Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2000.peak 42000: 4 patents20002001: 4 patents20012002: 2 patents20022005: 2 patents20052009: 1 patents2009

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–13 of 13 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7552736 Process for wafer backside polymer removal with a ring of plasma under the wafer Kenneth S. Collins, Hiroji Hanawa, Andrew Nguyen, Ajit Balakrishna, David Palagashvili +7 more 2009-06-30 $19,701,000
6962644 Tandem etch chamber plasma processing system Alexander Paterson, Valentin Todorov, Jon McChesney, David Palagashvili, John Holland +1 more 2005-11-08 $32,610,000
6917755 Substrate support Andrew Nguyen, Akihiro Hosokawa, Takayuki Matsumoto 2005-07-12 $29,244,000
6454898 Inductively coupled RF Plasma reactor having an overhead solenoidal antenna and modular confinement magnet liners Kenneth S. Collins, Michael R. Rice, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Craig A. Roderick, Eric Askarinam +5 more 2002-09-24 $13,765,000
6364957 Support assembly with thermal expansion compensation Hamid Noorbakhsh, Bryan Pu, Kaushik Vaidya, Brad L. Mays, Hung Dao +2 more 2002-04-02 $41,044,000
6308654 Inductively coupled parallel-plate plasma reactor with a conical dome Viktor Shel, Andrew Nguyen, Robert Wu, Gerald Yin 2001-10-30 $79,129,000
6263829 Process chamber having improved gas distributor and method of manufacture Edwin C. Weldon 2001-07-24 $104,034,000
6261408 Method and apparatus for semiconductor processing chamber pressure control Andrew Nguyen 2001-07-17 $103,910,000
6220607 Thermally conductive conformal media Edwin C. Weldon, Ananda H. Kumar, Kadthala Ramaya Narendrnath 2001-04-24 $56,824,000
6151203 Connectors for an electrostatic chuck and combination thereof Shamouil Shamouilian, Ananda H. Kumar, Arnold Kholodenko, Dennis S. Grimard, Liang Wang +4 more 2000-11-21 $50,110,000
6095083 Vacuum processing chamber having multi-mode access Michael R. Rice, Eric Askarinam, Kenneth S. Collins 2000-08-01 $134,161,000
6074512 Inductively coupled RF plasma reactor having an overhead solenoidal antenna and modular confinement magnet liners Kenneth S. Collins, Michael R. Rice, Douglas A. Buchberger, Jr., Craig A. Roderick, Eric Askarinam +5 more 2000-06-13 $124,024,000
6056267 Isolation valve with extended seal life 2000-05-02 $142,684,000