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James D. Strassner — 26 Patents

Applied Materials: 17 patents #793 of 7,310Top 15%
VAVarian Semiconductor Equipment Associates: 9 patents #90 of 513Top 20%
Austin, TX: #1,222 of 18,064 inventorsTop 7%
Texas: #4,879 of 125,132 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
James D. Strassner has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in November 2025. James D. Strassner ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list James D. Strassner in Austin, TX, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12469740 Vacuum chucking of a substrate within a carrier 2025-11-11
12464605 Active cooling of quartz enveloped heaters in vacuum Dursun Moore, Julian G. Blake, Hillman Bailey, Paul Forderhase 2025-11-04
12351406 Apparatuses and methods for handling optical devices of varying geometries Yaseer Arafath Ahamed, Neal Paul Ricks, Kangkang Wang 2025-07-08
12191186 Actively clamped carrier assembly for processing tools Benjamin B. Riordon 2025-01-07
12121925 Edge blackening for optical devices Kangkang Wang, Yaseer Arafath Ahamed, Yige Gao, Benjamin B. Riordon, Rami Hourani +2 more 2024-10-22 $83,950,000
12084761 Multi-depth film for optical devices Karl J. Armstrong, Ludovic Godet, Brian Alexander Cohen, Wayne MCMILLAN, Benjamin B. Riordon 2024-09-10 $81,152,000
11975422 Minimal contact gripping of thin optical devices Yaseer Arafath Ahamed, Kangkang Wang, Benjamin B. Riordon, Ludovic Godet 2024-05-07 $105,661,000
11850621 Edge blackening for optical devices Kangkang Wang, Yaseer Arafath Ahamed, Yige Gao, Benjamin B. Riordon, Rami Hourani +2 more 2023-12-26 $30,871,000
11715662 Actively clamped carrier assembly for processing tools Benjamin B. Riordon 2023-08-01 $66,604,000
11608558 Multi-depth film for optical devices Karl J. Armstrong, Ludovic Godet, Brian Alexander Cohen, Wayne MCMILLAN, Benjamin B. Riordon 2023-03-21 $36,722,000
11545375 Hybrid control system for workpiece heating Bradley M. Pomerleau, D. Jeffrey Lischer, Dawei Sun, Michael Paul Rohrer 2023-01-03 $39,123,000
11524392 Minimal contact gripping of thin optical devices Yaseer Arafath Ahamed, Kangkang Wang, Benjamin B. Riordon, Ludovic Godet 2022-12-13 $35,358,000
10903096 System and apparatus for process chamber window cooling Paul E. Pergande 2021-01-26
10831112 Reticle processing system Charles T. Carlson, Robert Brent Vopat, Jeffrey Blahnik 2020-11-10 $91,344,000
10522381 Aligner apparatus and methods Yaseer Arafath Ahamed 2019-12-31 $41,069,000
10256132 Reticle processing system Charles T. Carlson, Robert Brent Vopat, Jeffrey Blahnik 2019-04-09
10217657 Active substrate alignment system and method Aaron P. Webb, Timothy J. Miller, Tammy Jo Pride, Christopher N. Grant, Charles T. Carlson 2019-02-26
9659677 Shielding device for substrate edge protection and method of using same Aaron P. Webb, Charles T. Carlson, William T. Weaver, Timothy J. Miller 2017-05-23
9490153 Mechanical alignment of substrates to a mask Aaron P. Webb, Charles T. Carlson, Michael Honan, Luigi G. Amato, Christopher N. Grant 2016-11-08
9121879 Techniques for improving reliability of a fault current limiting system Kasegn D. Tekletsadik, Paul J. Murphy, Mark R. Amato 2015-09-01
9082799 System and method for 2D workpiece alignment William T. Weaver, Charles T. Carlson, Scott Alan Smith, Michael Beck, Aaron P. Webb +2 more 2015-07-14
8991785 Methods and apparatus for sealing a slit valve door Angela Rose Sico, Michael R. Rice 2015-03-31 $7,138,000
8654486 Superconducting fault current limiter system Mark R. Amato, Paul J. Murphy 2014-02-18
8611056 Superconducting fault current limiter Mark R. Amato, Paul J. Murphy 2013-12-17
6841200 Dual wafer load lock Joseph A. Kraus 2005-01-11 $26,821,000