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Michael D. Willwerth — 52 Patents

Applied Materials: 51 patents #158 of 7,310Top 3%
Intel: 1 patents #18,326 of 30,777Top 60%
Campbell, CA: #73 of 2,187 inventorsTop 4%
California: #7,530 of 386,348 inventorsTop 2%
Overall (All Time): #50,240 of 4,157,543Top 2%
52 Patents All Time
Michael D. Willwerth has been granted 52 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2007 and the most recent in October 2025. Michael D. Willwerth ranks #50,240 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 1.2%). Patent records list Michael D. Willwerth in Campbell, CA, US.

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Showing 1–25 of 52 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12437979 Capacitive sensors and capacitive sensing locations for plasma chamber condition monitoring Yaoling Pan, Patrick Tae, Leonard Tedeschi, Philip Allan Kraus 2025-10-07
12405164 Spatial optical emission spectroscopy for etch uniformity Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Michael Kutney, Zhaozhao Zhu, Tsung Feng Wu +1 more 2025-09-02
12163911 Capacitive sensor housing for chamber condition monitoring Yaoling Pan, Patrick Tae, Leonard Tedeschi, Daniel T. McCormick 2024-12-10 $69,596,000
12130561 Gas distribution plate with UV blocker Kartik Ramaswamy, Yang Yang 2024-10-29 $69,228,000
12068135 Fast gas exchange apparatus, system, and method Ming Xu, Ashley M. Okada, Duc Dang Buckius, Jeffrey Ludwig, Aditi MITHUN +1 more 2024-08-20 $94,413,000
12009236 Sensors and system for in-situ edge ring erosion monitor Yaoling Pan, Patrick Tae, Leonard Tedeschi, Daniel Sang Byun, Philip Allan Kraus +5 more 2024-06-11 $84,570,000
12009191 Thin film, in-situ measurement through transparent crystal and transparent substrate within processing chamber wall Patrick Tae, Blake Erickson, Zhaozhao Zhu, Barry Craver 2024-06-11 $84,570,000
11668602 Spatial optical emission spectroscopy for etch uniformity Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Michael Kutney, Zhaozhao Zhu, Tsung Feng Wu +1 more 2023-06-06 $40,761,000
11581206 Capacitive sensor for chamber condition monitoring Yaoling Pan, Patrick Tae, Leonard Tedeschi, Jennifer Y. Sun, Philip Allan Kraus +6 more 2023-02-14 $35,617,000
11551905 Resonant process monitor Yaoling Pan, Vijaykumar Krithivasan, Shimin Mao, Kelvin Chan, Anantha K. Subramani +5 more 2023-01-10 $14,061,000
11545346 Capacitive sensing data integration for plasma chamber condition monitoring Yaoling Pan, Patrick Tae, Leonard Tedeschi, Kiyki-Shiy Shang, Mikhail Taraboukhine +2 more 2023-01-03 $39,123,000
11448977 Gas distribution plate with UV blocker at the center Kartik Ramaswamy, Yang Yang 2022-09-20 $25,949,000
11415538 Capacitive sensor housing for chamber condition monitoring Yaoling Pan, Patrick Tae, Leonard Tedeschi, Daniel T. McCormick 2022-08-16 $38,686,000
11387135 Conductive wafer lift pin o-ring gripper with resistor Roberto Cesar Cotlear 2022-07-12 $30,931,000
11264252 Chamber lid with integrated heater Jeffrey Ludwig, Benjamin Schwarz, Roberto Cesar Cotlear 2022-03-01 $41,046,000
D931240 Substrate support pedestal Changhun Lee, Jeffrey Ludwig 2021-09-21
11094511 Processing chamber with substrate edge enhancement processing Changhun Lee, Valentin N. Todorow, Hean Cheal Lee, Hun Sang Kim 2021-08-17 $63,158,000
10790180 Electrostatic chuck with variable pixelated magnetic field Chih-Hsun Hsu, Tza-Jing Gung, Benjamin Schwarz, Shahid Rauf, Ankur Agarwal +2 more 2020-09-29 $24,138,000
10770269 Apparatus and methods for reducing particles in semiconductor process chambers Andrew Nguyen, Bradley J. Howard, Shahid Rauf, Ajit Balakrishna, Tom Choi +3 more 2020-09-08 $22,964,000
10770329 Gas flow for condensation reduction with a substrate processing chuck Hun Sang Kim 2020-09-08 $22,964,000
10490435 Cooling element for an electrostatic chuck assembly Roberto Cesar Cotlear, Andreas Schmid 2019-11-26 $24,423,000
10460968 Electrostatic chuck with variable pixelated magnetic field Chih-Hsun Hsu, Tza-Jing Gung, Benjamin Schwarz, Shahid Rauf, Ankur Agarwal +2 more 2019-10-29 $23,960,000
10290469 Enhanced plasma source for a plasma reactor Valentin N. Todorow, Gary Leray, Li-Sheng Chiang 2019-05-14 $40,982,000
10283397 Substrate lift pin actuator Roberto Cesar Cotlear 2019-05-07 $13,988,000
10257887 Substrate support assembly Alexander Matyushkin, Dan Katz, John Holland, Theodoros Panagopoulos 2019-04-09 $19,096,000