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Howard Grunes — 30 Patents

Applied Materials: 29 patents #394 of 7,310Top 6%
GIGas Research Institute: 1 patents #343 of 808Top 45%
IBM: 1 patents #44,878 of 70,183Top 65%
Santa Cruz, CA: #108 of 1,911 inventorsTop 6%
California: #17,345 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Howard Grunes has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1983 and the most recent in March 2013. Howard Grunes ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Howard Grunes in Santa Cruz, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1983 to 2013Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2002.peak 41983: 1 patents19831993: 2 patents1995: 2 patents19951996: 2 patents1997: 3 patents19971998: 2 patents1999: 3 patents19992000: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 4 patents2003: 2 patents20032004: 3 patents2006: 2 patents20062008: 1 patents2013: 1 patents2013

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8398832 Coils for generating a plasma and for sputtering Jaim Nulman, Sergio Edelstein, Mani Subramani, Zheng Xu, Avi Tepman +2 more 2013-03-19 $6,887,000
7422637 Processing chamber configured for uniform gas flow Vincent Ku, Ling Chen, Hua Chung 2008-09-09 $16,131,000
7138014 Electroless deposition apparatus Joseph Stevens, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Ian Pancham, Donald Olgado, Yeuk-Fai Edwin Mok 2006-11-21 $24,429,000
7048837 End point detection for sputtering and resputtering Sasson Somekh, Marc Schweitzer, John C. Forster, Zheng Xu, Roderick C. Mosely +1 more 2006-05-23 $10,996,000
6824612 Electroless plating system Joseph Stevens, Dmitry Lubomirsky, Ian Pancham, Donald Olgado, Yeuk-Fai Edwin Mok +1 more 2004-11-30 $15,899,000
6799939 Multiple independent robot assembly and apparatus for processing and transferring semiconductor wafers Robert B. Lowrance 2004-10-05 $71,609,000
6783639 Coils for generating a plasma and for sputtering Jaim Nulman, Sergio Edelstein, Mani Subramani, Zheng Xu, Avi Tepman +2 more 2004-08-31 $40,709,000
6640151 Multi-tool control system, method and medium Sasson Somekh 2003-10-28 $43,198,000
6575737 Method and apparatus for improved substrate handling Ilya Perlov, Alexey Goder, Evgueni Gantvarg 2003-06-10 $35,747,000
6486444 Load-lock with external staging area Kevin Fairbairn, Christopher T. Lane, Kelly Colborne 2002-11-26 $35,140,000
6468353 Method and apparatus for improved substrate handling Ilya Perlov, Alexey Goder, Eugene Gantvarg 2002-10-22 $32,970,000
6409890 Method and apparatus for forming a uniform layer on a workpiece during sputtering Zheng Xu, Praburam Gopalraja, John C. Forster, Ralf Hofmann, Anantha K. Subramani 2002-06-25 $39,568,000
6368469 Coils for generating a plasma and for sputtering Jaim Nulman, Sergio Edelstein, Mani Subramani, Zheng Xu, Avi Tepman +2 more 2002-04-09 $34,803,000
6254746 Recessed coil for generating a plasma Anantha K. Subramani, John C. Forster, Bradley O. Stimson, Sergio Edelstein, Avi Tepman +1 more 2001-07-03 $77,440,000
6102164 Multiple independent robot assembly and apparatus for processing and transferring semiconductor wafers William McClintock, Robert B. Lowrance 2000-08-15 $106,756,000
5879127 Robot assembly Robert B. Lowrance, Avi Tepman 1999-03-09 $25,183,000
5868847 Clamp ring for shielding a substrate during film layer deposition Aihua Chen, Zheng Xu, Avi Tepman, Igor Kogan 1999-02-09 $105,990,000
5857368 Apparatus and method for fabricating metal paths in semiconductor substrates through high pressure extrusion Stephen J. Blumenkranz, Eric C. Williams, Richard K. Reber 1999-01-12 $85,577,000
5810931 High aspect ratio clamp ring Joe Stevens, Igor Kogan 1998-09-22 $14,561,000
5763851 Slotted RF coil shield for plasma deposition system John C. Forster, Aihua Chen, Robert B. Lowrance, Ralf Hofmann, Zheng Xu +1 more 1998-06-09 $16,327,000
5690795 Screwless shield assembly for vacuum processing chambers Michael Rosenstein, Stephen Bruce Brodsky 1997-11-25
5678980 Robot assembly Avi Tepman, Robert B. Lowrance 1997-10-21 $85,045,000
5656093 Wafer spacing mask for a substrate support chuck and method of fabricating same Vincent E. Burkhart, Michael Sugarman 1997-08-12 $114,957,000
5556248 Semiconductor wafer cassette transfer system 1996-09-17 $16,373,000
5484011 Method of heating and cooling a wafer during semiconductor processing Avi Tepman, Dana L. Andrews 1996-01-16 $37,781,000