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Liqi Wu — 22 Patents

Applied Materials: 20 patents #664 of 7,310Top 10%
NSNovellus Systems: 2 patents #345 of 780Top 45%
San Jose, CA: #2,945 of 32,062 inventorsTop 10%
California: #25,951 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Liqi Wu has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2013 and the most recent in July 2025. Liqi Wu ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Liqi Wu in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2013 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2021.peak 42013: 1 patents20132015: 1 patents20152017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents20182020: 3 patents20202021: 4 patents20212022: 3 patents20222023: 2 patents20232024: 2 patents20242025: 3 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12351909 Gap fill methods using catalyzed deposition Byunghoon Yoon, Joung Joo Lee, Kai Wu, Xi Cen, Wei-Sheng Lei +2 more 2025-07-08
12291779 Methods of selective atomic layer deposition Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, David Thompson, Tobin Kaufman-Osborn, Kurt Fredrickson +1 more 2025-05-06
12272551 Selective metal removal with flowable polymer Feng Q. Liu, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, James Hugh Connolly, Zhimin QI, Jie Zhang +7 more 2025-04-08
12094785 Dual silicide process using ruthenium silicide Thomas Anthony Empante, Avgerinos V. Gelatos, Zhibo Yuan, Joung Joo Lee, Byunghoon Yoon 2024-09-17 $46,375,000
12024770 Methods for selective deposition using self-assembled monolayers Chang Ke, Wenyu Zhang 2024-07-02 $85,126,000
11821085 Methods of selective atomic layer deposition Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, David Thompson, Tobin Kaufman-Osborn, Kurt Fredrickson +1 more 2023-11-21 $39,416,000
11735420 Wafer treatment for achieving defect-free self-assembled monolayers Chang Ke, Lei Zhou, Biao Liu, Cheng Pan, Yuanhong Guo +5 more 2023-08-22 $40,609,000
11515155 Methods for enhancing selectivity in SAM-based selective deposition Chang Ke, Michael S. Jackson, Lei Zhou, Shuyi Zhang, David Thompson +3 more 2022-11-29 $23,914,000
11450525 Selective aluminum oxide film deposition Hung T. Nguyen, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Mark Saly, Feng Q. Liu, David Thompson 2022-09-20 $25,949,000
11421318 Methods and apparatus for high reflectivity aluminum layers Jacqueline S. Wrench, Hsiang-Ning Wu, Paul F. Ma, Sang Ho Yu, Fuqun Grace Vasiknanonte +1 more 2022-08-23 $37,610,000
11075276 Methods and apparatus for n-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) metal gate materials using atomic layer deposition (ALD) processes with metal based precursors Yongjing Lin, Shih Chung Chen, Naomi Yoshida, Lin Dong, Rongjun Wang +5 more 2021-07-27 $132,720,000
11033930 Methods and apparatus for cryogenic gas stream assisted SAM-based selective deposition Chang Ke, Song-Moon Suh, Michael S. Jackson, Lei Zhou, Biao Liu +3 more 2021-06-15 $88,912,000
10957590 Method for forming a layer Wenhui Wang, Huixiong Dai, Christopher S. Ngai, Wenyu Zhang, Yongmei Chen +3 more 2021-03-23 $48,969,000
10950433 Methods for enhancing selectivity in SAM-based selective deposition Chang Ke, Michael S. Jackson, Lei Zhou, Shuyi Zhang, David Thompson +3 more 2021-03-16 $56,717,000
10770292 Wafer treatment for achieving defect-free self-assembled monolayers Chang Ke, Lei Zhou, Biao Liu, Cheng Pan, Yuanhong Guo +5 more 2020-09-08 $22,964,000
10643840 Selective deposition defects removal by chemical etch Jeffrey W. Anthis, Chang Ke, Pratham Jain, Benjamin Schmiege, Guoqiang Jian +3 more 2020-05-05 $58,379,000
10608097 Low thickness dependent work-function nMOS integration for metal gate Paul F. Ma, Seshadri Ganguli, Shih Chung Chen, Rajesh Sathiyanarayanan, Atashi Basu +3 more 2020-03-31 $21,055,000
10014185 Selective etch of metal nitride films Wenyu Zhang, Shih Chung Chen, Wei V. Tang, Leung Kway Lee, Xinming Zhang +1 more 2018-07-03 $29,604,000
9748354 Multi-threshold voltage structures with a lanthanum nitride film and methods of formation thereof Wei V. Tang, Paul F. Ma, Steven C. H. Hung, Michael P. Chudzik, Siddarth A. Krishnan +6 more 2017-08-29 $19,098,000
9653352 Methods for forming metal organic tungsten for middle of the line (MOL) applications Sang Ho Yu, Kazuya Daito, Kie Jin Park, Kai Wu, David Thompson 2017-05-16 $17,932,000
9194045 Continuous plasma and RF bias to regulate damage in a substrate processing system Huatan Qiu, Yung-Yi Lee 2015-11-24
8431033 High density plasma etchback process for advanced metallization applications Chunming Zhou, Karthik S. Colinjivadi, Emery Kuo, Huatan Qiu, KieJin Park 2013-04-30