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John Pipitone — 28 Patents

Applied Materials: 27 patents #433 of 7,310Top 6%
CUComet Technologies Usa: 1 patents #12 of 17Top 75%
Livermore, CA: #93 of 2,185 inventorsTop 5%
California: #19,067 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #134,628 of 4,157,543Top 4%
28 Patents All Time
John Pipitone has been granted 28 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in May 2020. John Pipitone ranks #134,628 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.2%). Patent records list John Pipitone in Livermore, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 28 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10648074 Physical vapor deposition with isotropic neutral and non-isotropic ion velocity distribution at the wafer surface Daniel J. Hoffman, Karl M. Brown, Ying Rui 2020-05-12 $50,210,000
10400328 Physical vapor deposition system with a source of isotropic ion velocity distribution at the wafer surface Daniel J. Hoffman, Karl M. Brown, Ying Rui 2019-09-03 $20,988,000
9856558 Physical vapor deposition method with a source of isotropic ion velocity distribution at the wafer surface Daniel J. Hoffman, Karl M. Brown, Ying Rui 2018-01-02 $37,336,000
9593411 Physical vapor deposition chamber with capacitive tuning at wafer support Daniel J. Hoffman, Karl M. Brown, Ying Rui 2017-03-14 $16,778,000
9017533 Apparatus for controlling radial distribution of plasma ion density and ion energy at a workpiece surface by multi-frequency RF impedance tuning John C. Forster, Daniel J. Hoffman, Xianmin Tang, Rongjun Wang 2015-04-28 $17,425,000
8920611 Method for controlling radial distribution of plasma ion density and ion energy at a workpiece surface by multi-frequency RF impedance tuning John C. Forster, Daniel J. Hoffman, Xianming Tang, Rongjun Wang 2014-12-30 $17,286,000
8846451 Methods for depositing metal in high aspect ratio features Alan A. Ritchie, Karl M. Brown 2014-09-30 $12,856,000
8562798 Physical vapor deposition plasma reactor with RF source power applied to the target and having a magnetron Karl M. Brown, Vineet Haresh Mehta 2013-10-22 $10,239,000
8563428 Methods for depositing metal in high aspect ratio features Karl M. Brown, Alan A. Ritchie, Ying Rui, Daniel J. Hoffman 2013-10-22 $10,239,000
8512526 Method of performing physical vapor deposition with RF plasma source power applied to the target using a magnetron Karl M. Brown, Vineet Haresh Mehta 2013-08-20 $8,967,000
8491759 RF impedance matching network with secondary frequency and sub-harmonic variant Gerald E. Boston 2013-07-23
8435379 Substrate cleaning chamber and cleaning and conditioning methods Vineet Haresh Mehta, Karl M. Brown, Daniel J. Hoffman, Steven C. Shannon, Keith A. Miller +1 more 2013-05-07 $10,477,000
8123969 Process for removing high stressed film using LF or HF bias power and capacitively coupled VHF source power with enhanced residue capture Karl M. Brown, Vineet Haresh Mehta 2012-02-28 $8,688,000
8070925 Physical vapor deposition reactor with circularly symmetric RF feed and DC feed to the sputter target Daniel J. Hoffman, Ying Rui, Karl M. Brown, Lara Hawrylchak 2011-12-06 $11,052,000
8062484 Method for plasma-enhanced physical vapor deposition of copper with RF source power applied to the target Karl M. Brown, Vineet Haresh Mehta 2011-11-22 $8,445,000
7820020 Apparatus for plasma-enhanced physical vapor deposition of copper with RF source power applied through the workpiece with a lighter-than-copper carrier gas Karl M. Brown, Vineet Haresh Mehta, Ralf Hofmann 2010-10-26 $13,462,000
7804040 Physical vapor deposition plasma reactor with arcing suppression Karl M. Brown, Semyon Sherstinksy, Vineet Haresh Mehta, Wei Wang, Kurt J. Ahmann +1 more 2010-09-28 $15,575,000
7780814 Wafer pre-clean reactor cable termination for selective suppression/reflection of source and bias frequency cross products Kenneth Smyth, Mei Po (Mabel) Yeung 2010-08-24 $4,612,000
7768269 Method of multi-location ARC sensing with adaptive threshold comparison Ryan Nunn-Gage 2010-08-03 $9,713,000
7750644 System with multi-location arc threshold comparators and communication channels for carrying arc detection flags and threshold updating Ryan Nunn-Gage 2010-07-06 $6,398,000
7750645 Method of wafer level transient sensing, threshold comparison and arc flag generation/deactivation Ryan Nunn-Gage 2010-07-06 $6,398,000
7737702 Apparatus for wafer level arc detection at an electrostatic chuck electrode 2010-06-15 $8,018,000
7733095 Apparatus for wafer level arc detection at an RF bias impedance match to the pedestal electrode John C. Forster 2010-06-08 $8,435,000
7541289 Process for removing high stressed film using LF or HF bias power and capacitively coupled VHF source power with enhanced residue capture Karl M. Brown, Vineet Haresh Mehta 2009-06-02 $19,554,000
7399943 Apparatus for metal plasma vapor deposition and re-sputter with source and bias power frequencies applied through the workpiece Karl M. Brown, Vineet Haresh Mehta 2008-07-15 $16,085,000