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Michael Kutney — 30 Patents

Applied Materials: 30 patents #374 of 7,310Top 6%
Santa Clara, CA: #488 of 9,301 inventorsTop 6%
California: #17,345 of 386,348 inventorsTop 5%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Michael Kutney has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2009 and the most recent in September 2025. Michael Kutney ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Michael Kutney in Santa Clara, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2009 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2023.peak 52009: 1 patents20092010: 2 patents2011: 2 patents20112012: 3 patents2013: 3 patents20132017: 1 patents2018: 1 patents20182019: 1 patents2021: 2 patents20212022: 1 patents2023: 5 patents20232024: 3 patents2025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12405164 Spatial optical emission spectroscopy for etch uniformity Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Zhaozhao Zhu, Tsung Feng Wu, Michael D. Willwerth +1 more 2025-09-02
12339645 Estimation of chamber component conditions using substrate measurements Chunlei Zhang, Zhaozhao Zhu 2025-06-24
12283503 Substrate measurement subsystem Upendra Ummethala, Blake Erickson, Prashanth Kumar, Steven Trey Tindel, Zhaozhao Zhu 2025-04-22
12216455 Chamber component condition estimation using substrate measurements Chunlei Zhang, Zhaozhao Zhu 2025-02-04
12191176 Integrated substrate measurement system to improve manufacturing process performance Upendra Ummethala, Blake Erickson, Prashanth Kumar, Steven Trey Tindel, Zhaozhao Zhu 2025-01-07
12148647 Integrated substrate measurement system Patricia A. Schulze, Gregory John Freeman, Arunkumar Ramachandraiah, Chih Chung Chou, Zhaozhao Zhu +1 more 2024-11-19 $80,955,000
12066639 Adjustable achromatic collimator assembly for endpoint detection systems Pengyu Han, John Anthony O'MALLEY, III, Michael N. Grimbergen, Lei Lian, Upendra Ummethala 2024-08-20 $94,413,000
11927543 Multiple reflectometry for measuring etch parameters Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Soumendra N. Barman, Zhaozhao Zhu, Michelle SanPedro +1 more 2024-03-12 $97,620,000
11719952 Adjustable achromatic collimator assembly for endpoint detection systems Pengyu Han, John Anthony O'MALLEY, III, Michael N. Grimbergen, Lei Lian, Upendra Ummethala 2023-08-08 $46,911,000
11688616 Integrated substrate measurement system to improve manufacturing process performance Upendra Ummethala, Blake Erickson, Prashanth Kumar, Steven Trey Tindel, Zhaozhao Zhu 2023-06-27 $59,089,000
11668602 Spatial optical emission spectroscopy for etch uniformity Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Zhaozhao Zhu, Tsung Feng Wu, Michael D. Willwerth +1 more 2023-06-06 $40,761,000
11619594 Multiple reflectometry for measuring etch parameters Blake Erickson, Keith R. Berding, Soumendra N. Barman, Zhaozhao Zhu, Michelle SanPedro +1 more 2023-04-04 $41,324,000
D977504 Portion of a display panel with a graphical user interface Upendra Ummethala, Blake Erickson, Prashanth Kumar, Steven Trey Tindel, Zhaozhao Zhu 2023-02-07
11289387 Methods and apparatus for backside via reveal processing Prayudi Lianto, Sik Hin Chi, SHIH-CHAO HUNG, Pin Gian Gan, Ricardo Fujii Vinluan +10 more 2022-03-29 $46,373,000
11150120 Low temperature thermal flow ratio controller Ashley M. Okada 2021-10-19 $109,516,000
11054184 Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate to remove moisture and/or residue 2021-07-06 $60,527,000
10247473 Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate to remove moisture and/or residue 2019-04-02 $31,503,000
9982786 Valve with adjustable hard stop 2018-05-29 $37,048,000
9685655 Complex showerhead coating apparatus with electrospray for lithium ion battery Fei Wang, Hooman Bolandi, Connie P. Wang, Victor Pebenito, Siqing Lu +2 more 2017-06-20 $22,588,000
8617351 Plasma reactor with minimal D.C. coils for cusp, solenoid and mirror fields for plasma uniformity and device damage reduction Daniel J. Hoffman, Roger Alan Lindley, Martin Jeff Salinas, Hamid Tavassoli, Keiji Horioka +1 more 2013-12-31 $7,926,000
8440019 Lower liner with integrated flow equalizer and improved conductance James D. Carducci, Andrew Nguyen, Ajit Balakrishna 2013-05-14 $11,782,000
8382939 Plasma processing chamber with enhanced gas delivery Roger Alan Lindley 2013-02-26 $7,365,000
8313578 Etching chamber having flow equalizer and lower liner James D. Carducci, Kin Pong Lo, Kallol Bera, Matthew L. Miller 2012-11-20 $4,897,000
8282736 Lower liner with integrated flow equalizer and improved conductance James D. Carducci, Andrew Nguyen, Ajit Balakrishna 2012-10-09 $6,230,000
8118938 Lower liner with integrated flow equalizer and improved conductance James D. Carducci, Andrew Nguyen, Ajit Balakrishna 2012-02-21 $13,903,000