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John C. Forster — 98 Patents

Applied Materials: 95 patents #47 of 7,310Top 1%
Mountain View, CA: #60 of 11,022 inventorsTop 1%
California: #2,358 of 386,348 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #15,136 of 4,157,543Top 1%
98 Patents All Time
John C. Forster has been granted 98 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in January 2025. John C. Forster ranks #15,136 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.36%). Patent records list John C. Forster in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 15 patents in 2001.peak 151996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents1998: 1 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 3 patents2001: 15 patents2002: 6 patents20022003: 4 patents2004: 4 patents2005: 2 patents20052006: 3 patents2007: 2 patents2008: 1 patents20082009: 3 patents2010: 5 patents2013: 1 patents20132014: 6 patents2015: 4 patents2016: 3 patents20162017: 4 patents2018: 4 patents2019: 1 patents20192020: 4 patents2021: 5 patents2022: 2 patents20222023: 1 patents2024: 9 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 98 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12205791 Rating substrate support assemblies based on impedance circuit electron flow using machine learning Arvind Raman, Harikrishnan Rajagopal 2025-01-21
12142458 Symmetric plasma source to generate pie-shaped treatment Anantha K. Subramani, Farzad Houshmand, Philip Allan Kraus, Abhishek Chowdhury, Kallol Bera 2024-11-12 $39,712,000
12100576 Metal oxide preclean chamber with improved selectivity and flow conductance Andrew Nguyen, Xue Yang Chang, Yu Lei, Xianmin Tang, Yogananda Sarode Vishwanath +2 more 2024-09-24 $100,019,000
12080519 Smart dynamic load simulator for RF power delivery control system Jie Yu, Yue Guo, Kartik Ramaswamy, Tao Zhang, Shahid Rauf +2 more 2024-09-03 $44,731,000
12027354 Cleaning of SIN with CCP plasma or RPS clean Jothilingam Ramalingam, Yong Cao, Ilya Lavitsky, Keith A. Miller, Tza-Jing Gung +4 more 2024-07-02 $85,126,000
12014906 High temperature detachable very high frequency (VHF) electrostatic chuck (ESC) for PVD chamber William Johanson, Keith A. Miller, Cheng-Hsiung Tsai, Mukund Sundararajan 2024-06-18 $83,264,000
11915917 Methods and apparatus for reducing sputtering of a grounded shield in a process chamber Alan A. Ritchie, Muhammad M. Rasheed 2024-02-27 $57,915,000
11915918 Cleaning of sin with CCP plasma or RPS clean Jothilingam Ramalingam, Yong Cao, Ilya Lavitsky, Keith A. Miller, Tza-Jing Gung +4 more 2024-02-27 $57,915,000
11898236 Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate Zhiyong Wang, Halbert Chong, Irena H. Wysok, Tiefeng Shi, Gang Fu +9 more 2024-02-13 $47,589,000
11887818 Methods and systems to modulate film stress Tsutomu Tanaka, Ran Liu, Kenichi Ohno, Ning Li, Mihaela Balseanu +2 more 2024-01-30 $39,141,000
11823871 Microwave plasma source for spatial plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PE-ALD) processing tool Jozef Kudela, Tsutomu Tanaka, Alexander V. Garachtchenko, Dmitry A. Dzilno, Avinash Shervegar +3 more 2023-11-21 $39,416,000
11315769 Plasma source for rotating susceptor Kallol Bera, Anantha K. Subramani, Philip Allan Kraus, Farzad Houshmand, Hanhong Chen 2022-04-26 $43,127,000
11315763 Shaped electrodes for improved plasma exposure from vertical plasma source Kallol Bera, Dmitry A. Dzilno, Anantha K. Subramani, Tsutomu Tanaka 2022-04-26 $43,127,000
11170982 Methods and apparatus for producing low angle depositions Anantha K. Subramani, Praburam Gopal Raja, Steven V. Sansoni, Philip Allan Kraus, Yang Guo +5 more 2021-11-09 $68,627,000
11158489 Methods and systems to modulate film stress Tsutomu Tanaka, Ran Liu, Kenichi Ohno, Ning Li, Mihaela Balseanu +2 more 2021-10-26 $68,163,000
11133155 Apparatus for depositing metal films with plasma treatment Daping Yao, Hyman Lam, Jiang Lu, Can Xu, Dien-Yeh Wu +2 more 2021-09-28 $64,178,000
11081318 Geometrically selective deposition of dielectric films utilizing low frequency bias Kenichi Ohno, Keiichi Tanaka, Li-Qun Xia, Tsutomu Tanaka, Dmitry A. Dzilno +4 more 2021-08-03 $89,613,000
10903056 Plasma source for rotating susceptor Kallol Bera, Anantha K. Subramani, Philip Allan Kraus, Farzad Houshmand, Hanhong Chen 2021-01-26 $35,448,000
10879042 Symmetric plasma source to generate pie shaped treatment Anantha K. Subramani, Farzad Houshmand, Philip Allan Kraus, Abhishek Chowdhury, Kallol Bera 2020-12-29 $47,583,000
10763085 Shaped electrodes for improved plasma exposure from vertical plasma source Kallol Bera, Dmitry A. Dzilno, Anantha K. Subramani, Tsutomu Tanaka 2020-09-01 $30,946,000
10692706 Methods and apparatus for reducing sputtering of a grounded shield in a process chamber Alan A. Ritchie, Muhammad M. Rasheed 2020-06-23 $29,749,000
10593521 Substrate support for plasma etch operations Larry Frazier, Cheng-Hsiung Tsai, Mei Po (Mabel) Yeung, Michael S. Jackson 2020-03-17 $17,260,000
10453657 Apparatus for depositing metal films with plasma treatment Daping Yao, Hyman Lam, Jiang Lu, Can Xu, Dien-Yeh Wu +2 more 2019-10-22 $16,291,000
10121655 Lateral plasma/radical source Anantha K. Subramani, Kaushal Gangakhedkar, Abhishek Chowdhury, Nattaworn Nuntaworanuch, Kallol Bera +2 more 2018-11-06 $24,517,000
10099245 Process kit for deposition and etching Zhenbin Ge, Alan A. Ritchie 2018-10-16 $21,789,000