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Jeffrey Tobin — 31 Patents

Applied Materials: 21 patents #616 of 7,310Top 9%
NSNovellus Systems: 6 patents #147 of 780Top 20%
WARF: 3 patents #656 of 4,123Top 20%
Mountain View, CA: #582 of 11,022 inventorsTop 6%
California: #16,606 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #115,823 of 4,157,543Top 3%
31 Patents All Time
Jeffrey Tobin has been granted 31 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1993 and the most recent in February 2023. Jeffrey Tobin ranks #115,823 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.8%). Patent records list Jeffrey Tobin in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1993 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2018.peak 41993: 1 patents19931994: 1 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents2001: 2 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 2 patents20032015: 1 patents2016: 2 patents20162017: 3 patents2018: 4 patents20182019: 4 patents2020: 4 patents20202021: 1 patents2022: 1 patents20222023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 31 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11581408 Method and apparatus for selective nitridation process Matthew S. Rogers, Roger Curtis, Lara Hawrylchak, Canfeng Lai, Bernard L. Hwang +2 more 2023-02-14 $35,617,000
11450509 Inductive plasma source with metallic shower head using b-field concentrator Canfeng Lai, Peter I. Porshnev, Jose Antonio Marin 2022-09-20 $25,949,000
10950698 Method and apparatus for selective nitridation process Matthew S. Rogers, Roger Curtis, Lara Hawrylchak, Canfeng Lai, Bernard L. Hwang +2 more 2021-03-16 $56,717,000
10837122 Method and apparatus for precleaning a substrate surface prior to epitaxial growth Christopher S. Olsen, Theresa Kramer Guarini, Lara Hawrylchak, Peter Stone, Chi-Wei Lo +1 more 2020-11-17 $41,112,000
10626500 Showerhead design Kartik Shah, Chaitanya A. PRASAD, Kevin Joseph Bautista, Umesh M. Kelkar, Lara Hawrylchak 2020-04-21 $32,079,000
10535513 Apparatus and methods for backside passivation Lara Hawrylchak 2020-01-14 $50,821,000
10529541 Inductive plasma source with metallic shower head using B-field concentrator Canfeng Lai, Peter I. Porshnev, Jose Antonio Marin 2020-01-07 $68,481,000
10519547 Susceptor design to eliminate deposition valleys in the wafer Karthik Ramanathan, Kartik Shah, Nyi O. Myo, Schubert S. Chu, Errol Antonio C. Sanchez +1 more 2019-12-31 $41,069,000
10453733 Substrate transfer mechanisms Masato Ishii, Mehmet Tugrul Samir, Shu-Kwan LAU 2019-10-22 $16,291,000
10428441 Method and apparatus for precleaning a substrate surface prior to epitaxial growth Christopher S. Olsen, Theresa Kramer Guarini, Lara Hawrylchak, Peter Stone, Chi-Wei Lo +1 more 2019-10-01 $20,010,000
10221483 Showerhead design Kartik Shah, Chaitanya A. PRASAD, Kevin Joseph Bautista, Umesh M. Kelkar, Lara Hawrylchak 2019-03-05 $34,874,000
10128144 Support cylinder for thermal processing chamber Mehran Behdjat, Aaron Muir Hunter, Joseph M. Ranish, Norman L. Tam, Jiping Li +1 more 2018-11-13 $24,133,000
10049881 Method and apparatus for selective nitridation process Matthew S. Rogers, Roger Curtis, Lara Hawrylchak, Ken Kaung Lai, Bernard L. Hwang +2 more 2018-08-14 $24,993,000
9929029 Substrate carrier system 2018-03-27 $21,583,000
9905454 Substrate transfer mechanisms Masato Ishii, Mehmet Tugrul Samir, Shu-Kwan LAU 2018-02-27 $32,297,000
9683308 Method and apparatus for precleaning a substrate surface prior to epitaxial growth Christopher S. Olsen, Theresa Kramer Guarini, Lara Hawrylchak, Peter Stone, Chi-Wei Lo +1 more 2017-06-20 $22,588,000
9659809 Support cylinder for thermal processing chamber Mehran Behdjat, Aaron Muir Hunter, Joseph M. Ranish, Norman L. Tam, Jiping Li +1 more 2017-05-23 $22,760,000
9558982 Minimal contact edge ring for rapid thermal processing Heng Pan, Sairaju Tallavarjula, Kevin Joseph Bautista 2017-01-31 $44,860,000
9403251 Minimal contact edge ring for rapid thermal processing Sairaju Tallavarjula, Kevin Joseph Bautista 2016-08-02 $10,698,000
9385004 Support cylinder for thermal processing chamber Mehran Behdjat, Aaron Muir Hunter, Joseph M. Ranish, Norman L. Tam, Jiping Li +1 more 2016-07-05 $10,411,000
9048190 Methods and apparatus for processing substrates using an ion shield Bernard L. Hwang, Canfeng Lai, Lara Hawrylchak, Wei Liu, Johanes F. Swenberg 2015-06-02 $16,225,000
6613199 Apparatus and method for physical vapor deposition using an open top hollow cathode magnetron Jean Lu, Thomas W. Mountsier, Hong Mei Zhang 2003-09-02 $64,898,000
6589398 Pasting method for eliminating flaking during nitride sputtering Jean Lu, Linda Stenzel, Lananh Pham 2003-07-08 $23,704,000
6471831 Apparatus and method for improving film uniformity in a physical vapor deposition system Jean Lu, Tom Yu, Linda Stenzel 2002-10-29 $31,300,000
6468404 Apparatus and method for reducing redeposition in a physical vapor deposition system Jean Lu, Tom Yu 2002-10-22 $28,375,000