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Jeff Chinn — 8 Patents

Applied Materials: 5 patents #2,184 of 7,310Top 30%
Foster City, CA: #487 of 2,058 inventorsTop 25%
California: #74,834 of 386,348 inventorsTop 20%
Overall (All Time): #600,572 of 4,157,543Top 15%
8 Patents All Time
Jeff Chinn has been granted 8 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2000 and the most recent in July 2012. Jeff Chinn ranks #600,572 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 14.4%). Patent records list Jeff Chinn in Foster City, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2000 to 2012Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2002.peak 22000: 1 patents20002001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents20022003: 1 patents20032004: 1 patents20042011: 1 patents20112012: 1 patents2012

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–8 of 8 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
8221828 Surface coating process W. Robert Ashurst, Adam Anderson 2012-07-17
7968187 Surface coating W. Robert Ashurst, Adam Anderson 2011-06-28
6827869 Method of micromachining a multi-part cavity Dragan Podlesnik, Thorsten Lill, Shaoher X. Pan, Anisul Khan, Maocheng Li +1 more 2004-12-07
6613682 Method for in situ removal of a dielectric antireflective coating during a gate etch process Mohit Jain, Thorsten Lill 2003-09-02 $29,625,000
6491835 Metal mask etching of silicon Ajay Kumar, Anisul Khan, Wei Liu, John Chao 2002-12-10 $78,350,000
6402974 Method for etching polysilicon to have a smooth surface Jitske Trevor, Shashank Deshmukh 2002-06-11 $58,218,000
6235643 Method for etching a trench having rounded top and bottom corners in a silicon substrate David Mui, Dragan Podlesnik, Wei Liu, Gene Lee, Nam Hun Kim 2001-05-22 $114,795,000
6069086 Non-HBr shallow trench isolation etch process Padmapani Nallan, Ganming Zhao, Thalia Kong 2000-05-30 $186,360,000