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Kai Wu — 34 Patents

Applied Materials: 34 patents #313 of 7,310Top 5%
Palo Alto, CA: #642 of 9,675 inventorsTop 7%
California: #14,619 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #100,737 of 4,157,543Top 3%
34 Patents All Time
Kai Wu has been granted 34 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2010 and the most recent in July 2025. Kai Wu ranks #100,737 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.4%). Patent records list Kai Wu in Palo Alto, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 34 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12351909 Gap fill methods using catalyzed deposition Byunghoon Yoon, Liqi Wu, Joung Joo Lee, Xi Cen, Wei-Sheng Lei +2 more 2025-07-08
D1066440 Process chamber pumping liner Yang Li, Xi Cen, Min-Han Lee, Mehran Behdjat 2025-03-11
12191198 Low resistivity tungsten film and method of manufacture Feihu Wang, Joung Joo Lee, Xi Cen, Zhibo Yuan, Wei-Sheng Lei +2 more 2025-01-07
12159804 Tungsten molybdenum structures Xi Cen, Dixiong WANG, Yi Luo 2024-12-03 $97,002,000
12113020 Formation of metal vias on metal lines Ryan Smith, Nicolas L. Breil 2024-10-08 $69,128,000
12094773 Methods for low resistivity and stress tungsten gap fill Xi Cen, Min Heon, Wei Min Chan, Tom Ho Wing Yu, Peiqi WANG +4 more 2024-09-17 $46,375,000
12037682 Methods for forming low resistivity tungsten features Peiqi WANG, Cheng-Liang Cheng, Insu HA, Sang Jin Lee 2024-07-16 $116,305,000
12014956 Tungsten gapfill using molybdenum co-flow Xi Cen 2024-06-18 $83,264,000
11859277 Catalyst enhanced molybdenum deposition and gap fill Xi Cen, Seshadri Ganguli, Xinming Zhang, Norman L. Tam, Abhilash J. Mayur 2024-01-02 $40,045,000
11798845 Methods and apparatus for low resistivity and stress tungsten gap fill Xi Cen, Min Heon, Wei Min Chan, Tom Ho Wing Yu, Peiqi WANG +4 more 2023-10-24 $34,065,000
11776806 Multi-step pre-clean for selective metal gap fill Xi Cen, Yakuan Yao, Yiming Lai, Avgerinos V. Gelatos, David T. Or +8 more 2023-10-03 $34,462,000
11380536 Multi-step pre-clean for selective metal gap fill Xi Cen, Yakuan Yao, Yiming Lai, Avgerinos V. Gelatos, David T. Or +8 more 2022-07-05 $35,888,000
11355391 Method for forming a metal gapfill Xi Cen, Feiyue Ma, Yu Lei, Kazuya Daito, Yi Xu +13 more 2022-06-07 $46,649,000
10879081 Methods of reducing or eliminating defects in tungsten film Guoqiang Jian, Wei V. Tang, Chi-Chou Lin, Paul F. Ma, Vikash Banthia +4 more 2020-12-29 $47,583,000
10727119 Process integration approach of selective tungsten via fill He Ren, Feiyue Ma, Yu Lei, Mehul Naik, Zhiyuan Wu +2 more 2020-07-28 $35,855,000
10395916 In-situ pre-clean for selectivity improvement for selective deposition Vikash Banthia, Sang Ho Yu, Mei Chang, Feiyue Ma 2019-08-27 $34,720,000
10256144 Process integration approach of selective tungsten via fill He Ren, Feiyue Ma, Yu Lei, Mehul Naik, Zhiyuan Wu +2 more 2019-04-09 $19,096,000
9947578 Methods for forming low-resistance contacts through integrated process flow systems Yu Lei, Vikash Banthia, Xinyu Fu, Yi Xu, Kazuya Daito +9 more 2018-04-17 $32,881,000
9783889 Apparatus for variable substrate temperature control Gwo-Chuan Tzu, Xiaoxiong Yuan, Amit Khandelwal, Avgerinos V. Gelatos, Olkan Cuvalci +1 more 2017-10-10 $63,139,000
9748105 Tungsten deposition with tungsten hexafluoride (WF6) etchback Sang Ho Yu 2017-08-29 $19,098,000
9653352 Methods for forming metal organic tungsten for middle of the line (MOL) applications Liqi Wu, Sang Ho Yu, Kazuya Daito, Kie Jin Park, David Thompson 2017-05-16 $17,932,000
9528183 Cobalt removal for chamber clean or pre-clean process Bo Zheng, Sang Ho Yu, Avgerinos V. Gelatos, Bhushan Zope, Jeffrey W. Anthis +1 more 2016-12-27 $14,994,000
9169556 Tungsten growth modulation by controlling surface composition KieJin Park, Sang Ho Yu, Sang-Hyeob Lee, Kazuya Daito, Joshua Collins +1 more 2015-10-27 $16,675,000
9051655 Boron ionization for aluminum oxide etch enhancement Sang Ho Yu, Kie Jin Park, Glen T. Mori, Joshua Collins 2015-06-09 $13,413,000
8920564 Methods and apparatus for thermal based substrate processing with variable temperature capability Gwo-Chuan Tzu, Xiaoxiong Yuan, Amit Khandelwal, Benjamin C. Wang, Avgerinos V. Gelatos +3 more 2014-12-30 $17,286,000