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USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Dec 31, 2025
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Joseph Behnke — 18 Patents

Applied Materials: 9 patents #1,438 of 7,310Top 20%
SUSunpower: 8 patents #87 of 453Top 20%
TSTotal Marketing Services: 2 patents #76 of 293Top 30%
MPMaxeon Solar Pte.: 1 patents #70 of 129Top 55%
San Jose, CA: #3,642 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #33,102 of 386,348 inventorsTop 9%
Overall (All Time): #245,716 of 4,157,543Top 6%
18 Patents All Time
Joseph Behnke has been granted 18 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in September 2025. Joseph Behnke ranks #245,716 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.9%). Patent records list Joseph Behnke in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2010 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2016.peak 42010: 1 patents20102015: 2 patents20152016: 4 patents20162021: 2 patents20212023: 2 patents20232024: 4 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–18 of 18 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1092213 Packaging insert for a process chamber component Trevor Edward Wilantewicz, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Timothy Douglas Toth, Scott Osterman 2025-09-09
12362150 Semiconductor chamber components with advanced coating techniques Laksheswar Kalita, Ryan Pakulski, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Jonathan Strahle 2025-07-15
12198903 Plasma resistant arc preventative coatings for manufacturing equipment components Joseph F. Sommers, Xue Yang Chang, Anwar Husain, Alexander SULYMAN, Timothy Joseph Franklin +1 more 2025-01-14
12100613 Minimal contact packaging for process chamber components Trevor Edward Wilantewicz, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Timothy Douglas Toth, Scott Osterman 2024-09-24 $100,019,000
12074233 Metallization of solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Junbo Wu, Michael Cudzinovic, Paul Loscutoff +1 more 2024-08-27
11920234 Yttrium oxide based coating composition Vahid Firouzdor, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Hyun-Ho Doh, Joseph F. Sommers 2024-03-05 $73,319,000
11905583 Gas quench for diffusion bonding Joseph F. Sommers, Sumit Agarwal 2024-02-20 $66,055,000
11661650 Yttrium oxide based coating composition Vahid Firouzdor, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Hyun-Ho Doh, Joseph F. Sommers 2023-05-30 $32,229,000
D984895 Packaging insert for a process chamber component Trevor Edward Wilantewicz, Christopher Laurent Beaudry, Timothy Douglas Toth, Scott Osterman 2023-05-02
11195966 Bifacial solar cells with reflective back contacts David D. Smith, Sung Dug Kim, Hung-Ming Wang 2021-12-07 $38,789,000
11127866 Metallization of solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Junbo Wu, Michael Cudzinovic, Paul Loscutoff +1 more 2021-09-21 $37,139,000
9362427 Metallization of solar cells Richard Hamilton Sewell, David Aaron Randolph Barkhouse, Junbo Wu, Michael Cudzinovic, Paul Loscutoff +1 more 2016-06-07 $27,770,000
9328427 Edgeless pulse plating and metal cleaning methods for solar cells 2016-05-03 $27,852,000
9293624 Methods for electroless plating of a solar cell metallization layer Michael Cudzinovic 2016-03-22 $33,945,000
9263601 Enhanced adhesion of seed layer for solar cell conductive contact Junbo Wu, Michael C. Johnson, Michael Cudzinovic, Xi Zhu, David D. Smith +3 more 2016-02-16 $5,663,000
9217206 Enhanced porosification Seung Bum Rim 2015-12-22 $22,780,000
8945978 Formation of metal structures in solar cells 2015-02-03 $11,199,000
7727364 Auxiliary electrode encased in cation exchange membrane tube for electroplating cell Saravjeet Singh, Hooman Hafezi, Manoocher Birang, Aron Rosenfeld 2010-06-01 $13,547,000