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Gongda Yao — 31 Patents

Applied Materials: 31 patents #356 of 7,310Top 5%
Fremont, CA: #492 of 9,298 inventorsTop 6%
California: #16,606 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Gongda Yao has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1999 and the most recent in June 2018. Gongda Yao ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Gongda Yao in Fremont, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1999 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 6 patents in 2001.peak 61999: 2 patents19992000: 5 patents2001: 6 patents20012002: 3 patents2003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 3 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2016: 1 patents20162018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9991157 Method for depositing a diffusion barrier layer and a metal conductive layer Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2018-06-05 $36,422,000
9390970 Method for depositing a diffusion barrier layer and a metal conductive layer Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2016-07-12 $13,832,000
8158511 Method of depositing a uniform barrier layer and metal seed layer with reduced overhang over a plurality of recessed semiconductor features Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2012-04-17 $9,496,000
7989343 Method of depositing a uniform metal seed layer over a plurality of recessed semiconductor features Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2011-08-02 $5,317,000
7795138 Method of depositing a metal seed layer over recessed feature surfaces in a semiconductor substrate Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2010-09-14 $9,681,000
7687909 Metal / metal nitride barrier layer for semiconductor device applications Peijun Ding, Zheng Xu, Hong Mei Zhang, Xianmin Tang, Praburam Gopalraja +7 more 2010-03-30 $22,482,000
7589016 Method of depositing a sculptured copper seed layer Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2009-09-15 $12,042,000
7381639 Method of depositing a metal seed layer on semiconductor substrates Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2008-06-03 $34,287,000
7253109 Method of depositing a tantalum nitride/tantalum diffusion barrier layer system Peijun Ding, Zheng Xu, Hong Mei Zhang, Xianmin Tang, Praburam Gopalraja +7 more 2007-08-07 $22,752,000
7074714 Method of depositing a metal seed layer on semiconductor substrates Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2006-07-11 $12,872,000
6939801 Selective deposition of a barrier layer on a dielectric material Hua Chung, Ling Chen, Vincent Ku, Michael Yang 2005-09-06 $20,356,000
6919275 Method of preventing diffusion of copper through a tantalum-comprising barrier layer Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2005-07-19 $46,519,000
6908865 Method and apparatus for cleaning substrates Martin Kranz, Srinivas Guggilla, Suraj Rengarajan, Mei Chang, Nitin Khurana +1 more 2005-06-21 $30,094,000
6758947 Damage-free sculptured coating deposition Tony P. Chiang, Peijun Ding, Fusen Chen, Barry Chin, Gene Y. Kohara +2 more 2004-07-06 $50,005,000
6528180 Liner materials Wei Ti Lee, Ted Guo 2003-03-04 $29,443,000
6451179 Method and apparatus for enhancing sidewall coverage during sputtering in a chamber having an inductively coupled plasma Zheng Xu 2002-09-17 $18,500,000
6383915 Tailoring of a wetting/barrier layer to reduce electromigration in an aluminum interconnect Jingang Su, Zhang Xu, Fusen Chen 2002-05-07 $97,318,000
6368880 Barrier applications for aluminum planarization Shri Singhvi, Suraj Rengarajan, Peijun Ding 2002-04-09 $34,803,000
6303994 Method and apparatus for reducing the first wafer effect Hougong Wang 2001-10-16 $34,819,000
6299689 Reflow chamber and process Hougong Wang, Steve Lai, Peijun Ding 2001-10-09 $40,152,000
6271592 Sputter deposited barrier layers Edwin Kim, Michael Nam, Chris Cha, Sophia Lee, Fernand Dorleans +2 more 2001-08-07 $53,916,000
6238533 Integrated PVD system for aluminum hole filling using ionized metal adhesion layer Peter Satitpunwaycha, Kenny King-Tai Ngan, Zheng Xu 2001-05-29 $105,746,000
6232665 Silicon-doped titanium wetting layer for aluminum plug Peijun Ding, Zheng Xu, Hoa Kieu 2001-05-15 $105,754,000
6207558 Barrier applications for aluminum planarization Shri Singhvi, Suraj Rengarajan, Peijun Ding 2001-03-27 $69,548,000
6139698 Method and apparatus for reducing the first wafer effect Hougong Wang 2000-10-31 $72,215,000