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Mark Fodor — 26 Patents

Applied Materials: 26 patents #462 of 7,310Top 7%
CECercom: 1 patents #5 of 8Top 65%
Los Gatos, CA: #319 of 2,986 inventorsTop 15%
California: #20,975 of 386,348 inventorsTop 6%
Overall (All Time): #150,017 of 4,157,543Top 4%
26 Patents All Time
Mark Fodor has been granted 26 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1996 and the most recent in October 2021. Mark Fodor ranks #150,017 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 3.6%). Patent records list Mark Fodor in Los Gatos, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1996 to 2021Bar chart with a peak of 3 patents in 2001.peak 31996: 2 patents19961997: 2 patents1998: 2 patents19981999: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 3 patents2002: 2 patents20022003: 2 patents2004: 2 patents20042006: 1 patents2008: 1 patents20082011: 1 patents2012: 1 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142019: 1 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2021

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11136665 Shadow ring for modifying wafer edge and bevel deposition Dale Du Bois, Mohamad A. Ayoub, Robert W. Kim, Amit Kumar BANSAL, Binh Nguyen +6 more 2021-10-05 $94,201,000
10774423 Tunable ground planes in plasma chambers Karthik Janakiraman, Thomas Nowak, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Dale R. Du Bois, Amit Kumar BANSAL +4 more 2020-09-15 $35,161,000
10227695 Shadow ring for modifying wafer edge and bevel deposition Dale R. Du Bois, Mohamad A. Ayoub, Robert W. Kim, Amit Kumar BANSAL, Binh Nguyen +6 more 2019-03-12 $40,470,000
8778813 Confined process volume PECVD chamber Ramprakash Sankarakrishnan, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Juan Carlos Rocha-Alvarez, Dale R. Du Bois, Jianhua Zhou +6 more 2014-07-15 $20,143,000
8444926 Processing chamber with heated chamber liner Sophia M. Velastegui, Bok Hoen Kim, Dale R. DuBois 2013-05-21 $14,657,000
8197636 Systems for plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition and bevel edge etching Ashish Shah, Dale R. DuBois, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Eui Kyoon Kim, Chiu Chan +7 more 2012-06-12 $16,616,000
7922440 Apparatus and method for centering a substrate in a process chamber Dale R. Du Bois, Ganesh Balasubramanian, Chiu Chan, Karthik Janakiraman 2011-04-12 $6,345,000
7354288 Substrate support with clamping electrical connector Kazutoshi Maehara, Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan, Kentaro WADA, Andrzei Kaszuba 2008-04-08 $17,034,000
7024105 Substrate heater assembly Sophia M. Velastegui, Soovo Sen, Visweswaren Sivaramakrishnan, Peter Wai-Man Lee, Mario David Silvetti 2006-04-04 $23,180,000
6689930 Method and apparatus for cleaning an exhaust line in a semiconductor processing system Ben Pang, David Cheung, William Taylor, Sebastion Raoux 2004-02-10 $27,822,000
6680420 Apparatus for cleaning an exhaust line in a semiconductor processing system Ben Pang, David Cheung, William Taylor, Sebastien Raoux 2004-01-20 $55,713,000
6517913 Method and apparatus for reducing perfluorocompound gases from substrate processing equipment emissions David Cheung, Sebastien Raoux, Judy H. Huang, William Taylor, Kevin Fairbairn 2003-02-11 $17,783,000
6506994 Low profile thick film heaters in multi-slot bake chamber Yen-Kun Wang, Chen-An Chen, Himanshu Pokharna, Son T. Nguyen, Kelly Fong +1 more 2003-01-14 $32,327,000
6358573 Mixed frequency CVD process Sebastien Raoux, Mandar Mudholkar, William Taylor, Judy H. Huang, David Silvetti +2 more 2002-03-19 $47,426,000
6354241 Heated electrostatic particle trap for in-situ vacuum line cleaning of a substrated processing Tsutomu Tanaka, Chau Nguyen, Hari Ponnekanti, Kevin Fairbairn, Sebastien Raoux 2002-03-12 $78,135,000
6193802 Parallel plate apparatus for in-situ vacuum line cleaning for substrate processing equipment Ben Pang, David Cheung, William Taylor, Sebastien Raoux 2001-02-27 $52,416,000
6194628 Method and apparatus for cleaning a vacuum line in a CVD system Ben Pang, David Cheung, William Taylor, Sebastien Raoux 2001-02-27 $52,416,000
6187072 Method and apparatus for reducing perfluorocompound gases from substrate processing equipment emissions David Cheung, Sebastien Raoux, Judy H. Huang, William Taylor, Kevin Fairbairn 2001-02-13 $172,556,000
6098568 Mixed frequency CVD apparatus Sebastien Raoux, Mandar Mudholkar, William Taylor, Judy H. Huang, David Silvetti +2 more 2000-08-08 $74,240,000
5959409 Ceramic protection for heated metal surfaces of plasma processing chamber exposed to chemically aggressive gaseous environment therein and method protecting such heated metal surfaces Charles Dornfest, John M. White, Craig Bercaw, Hiroyuki Steven Tomosawa 1999-09-28 $70,146,000
5817406 Ceramic susceptor with embedded metal electrode and brazing material connection David Cheung, Christopher T. Lane, Ryusuke Ushikoshi, Hideyoshi Tsuruta, Tomoyuki Fujii 1998-10-06 $27,201,000
5705225 Method of filling pores in anodized aluminum parts Charles Dornfest, Fred C. Redeker, Craig Bercaw, H. Steven Tomozawa 1998-01-06 $49,266,000
5680013 Ceramic protection for heated metal surfaces of plasma processing chamber exposed to chemically aggressive gaseous environment therein and method of protecting such heated metal surfaces Charles Dornfest, John M. White, Craig Bercaw, Hiroyuki Steven Tomosawa 1997-10-21 $85,045,000
5633073 Ceramic susceptor with embedded metal electrode and eutectic connection David Cheung, Christopher T. Lane, Harold Mortensen 1997-05-27 $150,118,000
5531835 Patterned susceptor to reduce electrostatic force in a CVD chamber Craig Bercaw, Charles Dornfest 1996-07-02 $37,475,000