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Michael Kuchar — 24 Patents

Applied Materials: 24 patents #516 of 7,310Top 8%
Georgetown, TX: #56 of 611 inventorsTop 10%
Texas: #5,446 of 125,132 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Michael Kuchar has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in October 2025. Michael Kuchar ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Michael Kuchar in Georgetown, TX, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2008 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2022.peak 42008: 2 patents20082010: 2 patents2011: 1 patents20112014: 1 patents2015: 1 patents20152016: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 4 patents2023: 3 patents20232024: 3 patents2025: 2 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
D1098220 Mainframe of dual-robot substrate processing system Michael R. Rice, Travis Morey, Adam J. Wyatt, Ofer Amir 2025-10-14
D1076836 Mainframe with integrated lid Michael R. Rice, Robert M. McAndrew, Travis Morey, Adam J. Wyatt, Ofer Amir +2 more 2025-05-27
11996307 Semiconductor processing tool platform configuration with reduced footprint Nir Merry, Schubert S. Chu, Sushant S. Koshti, Nyi O. Myo, Songjae Lee 2024-05-28 $67,076,000
D1029066 Mainframe of dual-robot substrate processing system Michael R. Rice, Travis Morey, Adam J. Wyatt, Ofer Amir 2024-05-28
11932950 Organic contamination free surface machining Yuanhong Guo, Sheng Guo, Marek Radko, Steven V. Sansoni, Nagendra Madiwal +7 more 2024-03-19 $54,086,000
D992611 Mainframe of substrate processing system Michael R. Rice, Travis Morey, Adam J. Wyatt, Ofer Amir 2023-07-18
D991994 Mainframe of substrate processing system Michael R. Rice, Travis Morey, Adam J. Wyatt, Ofer Amir 2023-07-11
11555250 Organic contamination free surface machining Yuanhong Guo, Sheng Guo, Marek Radko, Steven V. Sansoni, Nagendra Madiwal +7 more 2023-01-17 $39,427,000
D973737 Mainframe of substrate processing system Michael R. Rice, Travis Morey, Adam J. Wyatt, Ofer Amir 2022-12-27
D973116 Mainframe of substrate processing system Michael R. Rice, Travis Morey, Adam J. Wyatt, Ofer Amir 2022-12-20
11415230 Slit valve pneumatic control Paul Z. Wirth, Ofer Amir 2022-08-16 $38,686,000
11328943 Dual gate and single actuator system Kumaresan Kuppannan, Ofer Amir 2022-05-10 $45,778,000
11087998 Transfer chambers with an increased number of sides, semiconductor device manufacturing processing tools, and processing methods Michael R. Rice, Michael Meyers, John Mazzocco, Dean C. Hruzek, Sushant S. Koshti +2 more 2021-08-10 $94,755,000
10971381 Transfer chambers with an increased number of sides, semiconductor device manufacturing processing tools, and processing methods Michael R. Rice, Michael Meyers, John Mazzocco, Dean C. Hruzek, Sushant S. Koshti +2 more 2021-04-06 $63,491,000
10381247 Gas systems and methods for chamber ports Nagendra Madiwal, Robert Irwin Decottignies, Andrew Nguyen, Paul B. Reuter, Angela Rose Sico +2 more 2019-08-13 $55,265,000
10159169 Flexible equipment front end module interfaces, environmentally-controlled equipment front end modules, and assembly methods Joseph Vincent, Dean C. Hruzek, Vijayabaskar Soundarrajan, Pandu Maddherla, Adam J. Wyatt +1 more 2018-12-18 $31,665,000
9435025 Gas apparatus, systems, and methods for chamber ports Nagendra Madiwal, Robert Irwin Decottignies, Andrew Nguyen, Paul B. Reuter, Angela Rose Sico +2 more 2016-09-06 $45,889,000
9091491 Cooling plates and semiconductor apparatus thereof Helder Lee, Miriam Schwartz, Aaron P. Webb, Theodoss Costuros 2015-07-28 $13,399,000
8911193 Substrate processing sequence in a cartesian robot cluster tool Mike Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Charles T. Carlson, William T. Weaver, Robert B. Lowrance +6 more 2014-12-16 $14,131,000
8066466 Substrate processing sequence in a Cartesian robot cluster tool Mike Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Charles T. Carlson, William T. Weaver, Robert B. Lowrance +6 more 2011-11-29 $8,648,000
7798764 Substrate processing sequence in a cartesian robot cluster tool Mike Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Charles T. Carlson, William T. Weaver, Robert B. Lowrance +6 more 2010-09-21 $8,059,000
7651306 Cartesian robot cluster tool architecture Mike Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Charles T. Carlson, William T. Weaver, Robert B. Lowrance +6 more 2010-01-26 $9,867,000
7374391 Substrate gripper for a substrate handling robot Michael R. Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Charles T. Carlson, William T. Weaver, Robert B. Lowrance +6 more 2008-05-20 $13,768,000
7374393 Method of retaining a substrate during a substrate transferring process Mike Rice, Jeffrey C. Hudgens, Charles T. Carlson, William T. Weaver, Robert B. Lowrance +6 more 2008-05-20 $13,768,000