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Jianming Fu — 97 Patents

Applied Materials: 66 patents #101 of 7,310Top 2%
Tesla: 22 patents #19 of 838Top 3%
SISilevo: 6 patents #1 of 13Top 8%
EBEbots: 1 patents #4 of 6Top 70%
Palo Alto, CA: #118 of 9,675 inventorsTop 2%
California: #2,402 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #15,415 of 4,157,543Top 1%
97 Patents All Time
Jianming Fu has been granted 97 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in February 2024. Jianming Fu ranks #15,415 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.37%). Patent records list Jianming Fu in Palo Alto, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 12 patents in 2001.peak 121997: 1 patents19971998: 3 patents1999: 8 patents2000: 2 patents20002001: 12 patents2002: 11 patents2003: 3 patents20032004: 9 patents2005: 6 patents2006: 1 patents20062007: 3 patents2008: 1 patents2009: 2 patents20092010: 1 patents2012: 2 patents2014: 5 patents20142015: 5 patents2016: 7 patents2017: 4 patents20172018: 8 patents2019: 1 patents2021: 1 patents20212024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 97 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11897524 Overload and unbalanced load detecting system for railway and detecting method Xiaobing Liu, Xiangsheng Pang, Zhiqiang Wang, Chao Guo 2024-02-13
11117262 Intelligent robots Kai C. Yung, Zheng Xu 2021-09-14
10309012 Wafer carrier for reducing contamination from carbon particles and outgassing Yongkee Chae, Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Zheng Xu 2019-06-04
10164127 Module fabrication of solar cells with low resistivity electrodes Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Zheng Xu, Bobby Yang 2018-12-25
10115839 Module fabrication of solar cells with low resistivity electrodes Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Zheng Xu, Bobby Yang 2018-10-30
10084107 Transparent conducting oxide for photovoltaic devices Zheng Xu, Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Chentao Yu 2018-09-25
10084099 Aluminum grid as backside conductor on epitaxial silicon thin film solar cells Chentao Yu, Zheng Xu, Jiunn Benjamin Heng 2018-09-25
10047430 Self-ionized and inductively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering Peijun Ding, Rong Tao, Zheng Xu, Daniel C. Lubben, Suraj Rengarajan +7 more 2018-08-14 $24,993,000
9972740 Chemical vapor deposition tool and process for fabrication of photovoltaic structures Yongkee Chae 2018-05-15
9887306 Tunneling-junction solar cell with copper grid for concentrated photovoltaic application Zheng Xu, Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Chentao Yu 2018-02-06
9865754 Hole collectors for silicon photovoltaic cells Zhigang Xie, Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Wei Wang, Zheng Xu 2018-01-09
9800053 Solar panels with integrated cell-level MPPT devices Christopher J. Beitel, Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Zheng Xu 2017-10-24
9773928 Solar cell with electroplated metal grid Zheng Xu, Chentao Yu, Jiunn Benjamin Heng 2017-09-26
9624595 Electroplating apparatus with improved throughput Wen Zhong Kong 2017-04-18
9537032 Low-cost high-efficiency solar module using epitaxial Si thin-film absorber and double-sided heterojunction solar cell with integrated module fabrication Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Chentao Yu, Zheng Xu, Peijun Ding 2017-01-03
9502590 Photovoltaic devices with electroplated metal grids Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Christopher J. Beitel, Zheng Xu 2016-11-22
9496427 Module fabrication of solar cells with low resistivity electrodes Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Zheng Xu, Bobby Yang 2016-11-15 $5,012,000
9461189 Photovoltaic devices with electroplated metal grids Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Christopher J. Beitel, Zheng Xu 2016-10-04 $13,680,000
9460925 System and apparatus for efficient deposition of transparent conductive oxide Wei Wang, Zheng Xu, Kenneth R. Reynolds, Ollivier J. Lefevre 2016-10-04 $13,680,000
9412884 Module fabrication of solar cells with low resistivity electrodes Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Zheng Xu, Bobby Yang 2016-08-09 $50,568,000
9343595 Photovoltaic devices with electroplated metal grids Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Christopher J. Beitel, Zheng Xu 2016-05-17 $40,973,000
9281436 Radio-frequency sputtering system with rotary target for fabricating solar cells Zhigang Xie, Wei Wang, Zheng Xu 2016-03-08 $46,618,000
9219174 Module fabrication of solar cells with low resistivity electrodes Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Zheng Xu, Bobby Yang 2015-12-22 $72,050,000
9214576 Transparent conducting oxide for photovoltaic devices Zheng Xu, Jiunn Benjamin Heng, Chentao Yu 2015-12-15 $71,907,000
9062372 Self-ionized and capacitively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering Praburam Gopalraja, Xianmin Tang, John C. Forster, Umesh M. Kelkar 2015-06-23 $13,157,000