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Mark Yam — 48 Patents

Applied Materials: 46 patents #185 of 7,310Top 3%
NSNovellus Systems: 2 patents #345 of 780Top 45%
Monte Sereno, CA: #18 of 229 inventorsTop 8%
California: #8,595 of 386,348 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #57,596 of 4,157,543Top 2%
48 Patents All Time
Mark Yam has been granted 48 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1997 and the most recent in April 2024. Mark Yam ranks #57,596 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.4%). Patent records list Mark Yam in Monte Sereno, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1997 to 2024Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2014.peak 51997: 1 patents19971998: 4 patents1999: 2 patents19992000: 3 patents2001: 4 patents20012002: 4 patents2004: 1 patents20042006: 4 patents2007: 2 patents20072009: 3 patents2010: 1 patents20102011: 2 patents2012: 4 patents20122013: 1 patents2014: 5 patents20142015: 1 patents2017: 2 patents20172018: 1 patents2020: 2 patents20202024: 1 patents2024

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 48 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11945045 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2024-04-02 $42,223,000
10857623 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2020-12-08 $52,028,000
10840100 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Paul G. Carey, Aaron Muir Hunter, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Stephen Moffatt +2 more 2020-11-17 $41,112,000
10141191 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Paul G. Carey, Aaron Muir Hunter, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Stephen Moffatt +2 more 2018-11-27 $52,277,000
9839976 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2017-12-12 $38,022,000
9737959 Thermal processing by scanning a laser line beam Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Vernon Behrens, Paul A. O'Brien, Leonid M. Teritski +1 more 2017-08-22 $17,010,000
8951348 Single-chamber sequential curing of semiconductor wafers Krishnan Shrinivasan, Feng Wang, George D. Kamian, Steve Gentile 2015-02-10
8907247 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of laser radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2014-12-09 $24,395,000
8890024 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of continuous wave laser radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2014-11-18 $27,822,000
8829393 Scanned laser light source Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Vernon Behrens, Paul A. O'Brien, Leonid M. Tertitski +1 more 2014-09-09 $30,186,000
8765618 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of continuous wave laser radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2014-07-01 $14,182,000
8653408 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of continuous wave laser radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2014-02-18 $22,088,000
8518838 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Paul G. Carey, Aaron Muir Hunter, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Stephen Moffatt +2 more 2013-08-27 $25,627,000
8288685 Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Vernon Behrens, Paul A. O'Brien, Leonid M. Tertitski +1 more 2012-10-16 $10,138,000
8242407 Annealing apparatus using two wavelengths of continuous wave laser radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2012-08-14 $35,341,000
8178819 Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Vernon Behrens, Paul A. O'Brien, Leonid M. Tertitski +1 more 2012-05-15 $33,010,000
8137465 Single-chamber sequential curing of semiconductor wafers Krishna Shrinivasan, Feng Wang, George D. Kamian, Steve Gentile 2012-03-20 $14,529,000
7875829 Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Vernon Behrens, Paul A. O'Brien, Leonid M. Tertitski +1 more 2011-01-25 $50,440,000
7872209 Thermal flux processing by scanning a focused line beam Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Vernon Behrens, Paul A. O'Brien, Leonid M. Tertitski +1 more 2011-01-18 $15,285,000
7772134 Method of annealing using two wavelengths of continuous wave laser radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2010-08-10 $7,625,000
7611976 Gate electrode dopant activation method for semiconductor manufacturing Yi Ma, Khaled Ahmed, Kevin Cunningham, Robert C. McIntosh, Abhilash J. Mayur +6 more 2009-11-03 $16,291,000
7595208 Method of laser annealing using two wavelengths of radiation Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2009-09-29 $29,132,000
7569463 Method of thermal processing structures formed on a substrate Ajit Balakrishna, Paul G. Carey, Dean Jennings, Abhilash J. Mayur, Stephen Moffatt +1 more 2009-08-04 $13,023,000
7279721 Dual wavelength thermal flux laser anneal Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Vijay Parihar, Abhilash J. Mayur, Aaron Muir Hunter +2 more 2007-10-09 $22,463,000
7262106 Absorber layer for DSA processing Luc Van Autryve, Chris Bencher, Dean Jennings, Haifan Liang, Abhilash J. Mayur +2 more 2007-08-28 $31,681,000