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Hoon Kim — 11 Patents

Applied Materials: 5 patents #2,184 of 7,310Top 30%
Samsung: 4 patents #26,244 of 75,807Top 35%
Globalfoundries: 1 patents #2,221 of 4,424Top 55%
San Jose, CA: #5,902 of 32,062 inventorsTop 20%
California: #56,011 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #435,149 of 4,157,543Top 15%
11 Patents All Time
Hoon Kim has been granted 11 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in January 2019. Hoon Kim ranks #435,149 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 10.5%). Patent records list Hoon Kim in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2019Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2007.peak 32003: 1 patents20032007: 3 patents20072011: 1 patents20112014: 2 patents20142015: 2 patents20152018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2019

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–11 of 11 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10170617 Vertical transport field effect transistors Jiseok Kim, Hiroaki Niimi, Puneet Harischandra Suvarna, Steven Bentley, Jody A. Fronheiser 2019-01-01
9926639 Methods for forming barrier/seed layers for copper interconnect structures Wei Ti Lee, Sang Ho Yu, Seshadri Ganguli, Hyoung-Chan Ha, Sang-Hyeob Lee 2018-03-27 $21,583,000
9129945 Formation of liner and barrier for tungsten as gate electrode and as contact plug to reduce resistance and enhance device performance Sang-Hyeob Lee, Sang Ho Yu, Wei Ti Lee, Seshadri Ganguli, Hyoung-Chan Ha 2015-09-08 $6,271,000
9048183 NMOS metal gate materials, manufacturing methods, and equipment using CVD and ALD processes with metal based precursors Seshadri Ganguli, Srinivas Gandikota, Yu Lei, Xinliang Lu, Sang Ho Yu +4 more 2015-06-02 $16,225,000
8642468 NMOS metal gate materials, manufacturing methods, and equipment using CVD and ALD processes with metal based precursors Seshadri Ganguli, Srinivas Gandikota, Yu Lei, Xinliang Lu, Sang Ho Yu +4 more 2014-02-04 $11,933,000
8637390 Metal gate structures and methods for forming thereof Seshadri Ganguli, Sang Ho Yu, Sang-Hyeob Lee, Hyoung-Chan Ha, Wei Ti Lee +4 more 2014-01-28 $15,652,000
7932138 Method for manufacturing thin film transistor Hyoung June Kim, Dong Hoon Shin, Su Kyoung Lee, Jung-Min Lee, Wang Jun Park +1 more 2011-04-26
7238965 Thin film transistor and method for fabricating the same with step formed at certain layer 2007-07-03
7220993 Thin film transistor having a metal induced lateral crystallization region and method for fabricating the same Jin-Wook Seo, Ki-Yong Lee 2007-05-22
7202501 Thin film transistor and method for fabricating the same Ki-Yong Lee, Jin-Wook Seo 2007-04-10
6616497 Method of manufacturing carbon nanotube field emitter by electrophoretic deposition Won-bong Choi, Deuk-seok Chung, Jung-ho Kang 2003-09-09