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Michael Miller — 7 Patents

Applied Materials: 7 patents #1,734 of 7,310Top 25%
Mountain View, CA: #2,947 of 11,022 inventorsTop 30%
California: #83,669 of 386,348 inventorsTop 25%
Overall (All Time): #680,018 of 4,157,543Top 20%
7 Patents All Time
Michael Miller has been granted 7 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in August 2018. Michael Miller ranks #680,018 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 16.4%). Patent records list Michael Miller in Mountain View, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2003 to 2018Bar chart with a peak of 2 patents in 2014.peak 22003: 1 patents20032005: 1 patents20052007: 1 patents20072010: 1 patents20102014: 2 patents20142018: 1 patents2018

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–7 of 7 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10047430 Self-ionized and inductively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering Peijun Ding, Rong Tao, Zheng Xu, Daniel C. Lubben, Suraj Rengarajan +7 more 2018-08-14 $24,993,000
8696875 Self-ionized and inductively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering Peijun Ding, Rong Tao, Zheng Xu, Daniel C. Lubben, Suraj Rengarajan +7 more 2014-04-15 $21,336,000
8668816 Self-ionized and inductively-coupled plasma for sputtering and resputtering Peijun Ding, Rong Tao, Zheng Xu, Daniel C. Lubben, Suraj Rengarajan +7 more 2014-03-11 $12,153,000
7674360 Mechanism for varying the spacing between sputter magnetron and target Ilyoung Richard Hong, Donny Young, Michael Rosenstein, Robert B. Lowrance, Daniel C. Lubben +3 more 2010-03-09 $8,227,000
7294574 Sputter deposition and etching of metallization seed layer for overhang and sidewall improvement Peijun Ding, Fuhong Zhang, Hsien-Lung Yang, Jianming Fu, Jick Yu +2 more 2007-11-13 $11,470,000
6852202 Small epicyclic magnetron with controlled radial sputtering profile James Tsung, Daniel C. Lubben, Ilyoung Richard Hong, Peijun Ding 2005-02-08 $20,730,000
6627050 Method and apparatus for depositing a tantalum-containing layer on a substrate Peijun Ding, Howard H. Tang, Tony P. Chiang, Jianming Fu 2003-09-30 $29,599,000