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Lu Chen — 17 Patents

Applied Materials: 15 patents #912 of 7,310Top 15%
TUTungaloy: 1 patents #62 of 99Top 65%
Cupertino, CA: #987 of 6,989 inventorsTop 15%
California: #35,467 of 386,348 inventorsTop 10%
Overall (All Time): #263,971 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17 Patents All Time
Lu Chen has been granted 17 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1988 and the most recent in September 2025. Lu Chen ranks #263,971 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 6.3%). Patent records list Lu Chen in Cupertino, CA, US.

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Showing 1–17 of 17 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12431358 Methods and materials for enhanced barrier performance and reduced via resistance Seshadri Ganguli, Sang Ho Yu, Feng Chen 2025-09-30
12243774 Impurity removal in doped ALD tantalum nitride Rui Li, Xiangjin Xie, Tae Hong Ha, Xianmin Tang 2025-03-04
12211743 Method of forming a metal liner for interconnect structures Ge Qu, Zhiyuan Wu, Feng Chen, Carmen Leal Cervantes, Yong Jin Kim +4 more 2025-01-28
12195845 Conditioning treatment for ALD productivity Christina L. Engler 2025-01-14
12148660 Low resistance and high reliability metallization module Roey Shaviv, Suketu Arun Parikh, Feng Chen 2024-11-19 $80,955,000
11955382 Reverse selective etch stop layer Kevin Kashefi, Alexander Jansen, Mehul Naik, He Ren, Feng Chen 2024-04-09 $47,694,000
11784127 Ruthenium liner and cap for back-end-of-line Wenjing Xu, Feng Chen, Tae Hong Ha, Xianmin Tang, Zhiyuan Wu 2023-10-10 $39,034,000
11764157 Ruthenium liner and cap for back-end-of-line applications Wenjing Xu, Feng Chen, Tae Hong Ha, Xianmin Tang, Zhiyuan Wu 2023-09-19 $44,467,000
11566324 Conditioning treatment for ALD productivity Christina L. Engler 2023-01-31 $29,381,000
11410881 Impurity removal in doped ALD tantalum nitride Rui Li, Xiangjin Xie, Tae Hong Ha, Xianmin Tang 2022-08-09 $67,965,000
11270911 Doping of metal barrier layers Christina L. Engler, Gang Shen, Feng Chen, Tae Hong Ha, Xianmin Tang 2022-03-08 $69,139,000
9303318 Multiple complementary gas distribution assemblies Tuoh Bin Ng, Yuriy Melnik, Lily Pang, Eda Tuncel, Son T. Nguyen 2016-04-05 $9,374,000
8980002 Methods for improved growth of group III nitride semiconductor compounds Yuriy Melnik, Hidehiro Kojiri 2015-03-17 $8,353,000
8882870 Coated tool 2014-11-11
8853086 Methods for pretreatment of group III-nitride depositions Yuriy Melnik, Hidehiro Kojiri 2014-10-07 $14,828,000
8778783 Methods for improved growth of group III nitride buffer layers Yuriy Melnik, Hidehiro Kojiri 2014-07-15 $20,143,000
4748878 Impact socket wrench or an attachment assembly with hammering effect 1988-06-07