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Liangfa Hu — 6 Patents

Applied Materials: 5 patents #2,184 of 7,310Top 30%
IUIowa State University: 1 patents #700 of 1,643Top 45%
San Jose, CA: #9,609 of 32,062 inventorsTop 30%
California: #94,478 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #779,687 of 4,157,543Top 20%
6 Patents All Time
Liangfa Hu has been granted 6 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2021 and the most recent in June 2025. Liangfa Hu ranks #779,687 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 18.8%). Patent records list Liangfa Hu in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2021 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2022.peak 22021: 1 patents20212022: 2 patents20222023: 2 patents20232025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–6 of 6 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12334384 Methods and apparatus for minimizing substrate backside damage Abdul Aziz Khaja, Sarah Michelle Bobek, Prashant Kumar Kulshreshtha, Yoichi Suzuki 2025-06-17
11756819 Methods and apparatus for minimizing substrate backside damage Abdul Aziz Khaja, Sarah Michelle Bobek, Prashant Kumar Kulshreshtha, Yoichi Suzuki 2023-09-12 $47,983,000
11560623 Methods of reducing chamber residues Prashant Kumar Kulshreshtha, Anjana M. Patel, Abdul Aziz Khaja, Viren Kalsekar, Vinay Prabhakar +5 more 2023-01-24 $45,726,000
11515066 Heat treatable magnets having improved alignment through application of external magnetic field during binder-assisted molding Aaron G. Kassen, Iver E. Anderson, Emma Marie Hamilton White, Matthew J. Kramer, David J. Byrd 2022-11-29
11515150 Hardmask tuning by electrode adjustment Michael Wenyoung Tsiang, Abdul Aziz Khaja, Li-Qun Xia, Kevin Hsiao, Yayun Cheng 2022-11-29 $23,914,000
10971390 Methods of minimizing wafer backside damage in semiconductor wafer processing Abdul Aziz Khaja, Sudha Rathi, Ganesh Balasubramanian 2021-04-06 $63,491,000