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Michael Sugarman — 36 Patents

Applied Materials: 36 patents #287 of 7,310Top 4%
San Francisco, CA: #805 of 26,999 inventorsTop 3%
California: #13,468 of 386,348 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #92,222 of 4,157,543Top 3%
36 Patents All Time
Michael Sugarman has been granted 36 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1992 and the most recent in July 2011. Michael Sugarman ranks #92,222 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.2%). Patent records list Michael Sugarman in San Francisco, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1992 to 2011Bar chart with a peak of 7 patents in 2003.peak 71992: 1 patents19921994: 1 patents1996: 1 patents19961997: 1 patents2000: 1 patents20002001: 4 patents2002: 5 patents20022003: 7 patents2004: 3 patents20042005: 4 patents2006: 2 patents20062007: 2 patents2009: 3 patents20092011: 1 patents2011

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 36 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
7980255 Single wafer dryer and drying methods Younes Achkire, Alexander Lerner, Boris Govzman, Boris Fishkin, Rashid Mavleiv +4 more 2011-07-19 $13,234,000
7513062 Single wafer dryer and drying methods Younes Achkire, Alexander Lerner, Boris Govzman, Boris Fishkin, Rashid Mavliev +4 more 2009-04-07 $14,489,000
7507296 Methods and apparatus for determining scrubber brush pressure Vladimir Galburt 2009-03-24 $16,789,000
7497932 Electro-chemical deposition system Mark Cassidy Cridlin Lloyd, Donald Olgado, Ratson Morad, Peter Hey, Mark Denome +10 more 2009-03-03 $11,197,000
7229504 Methods and apparatus for determining scrubber brush pressure Vladimir Galburt 2007-06-12 $17,998,000
7226514 Spin-rinse-dryer Anwar Husain, Brian J. Brown, David G. Andeen, Svetlana Sherman, John M. White +2 more 2007-06-05 $16,579,000
7063749 Scrubber with sonic nozzle 2006-06-20 $14,811,000
6986185 Methods and apparatus for determining scrubber brush pressure Vladimir Galburt 2006-01-17 $34,145,000
6955516 Single wafer dryer and drying methods Younes Achkire, Alexander Lerner, Boris Govzman, Boris Fishkin, Rashid Mavliev +4 more 2005-10-18 $29,253,000
6921494 Backside etching in a scrubber Brian J. Brown, Madhavi R. Chandrachood, Radha Nayak, Fred C. Redeker, John M. White 2005-07-26 $43,260,000
6918864 Roller that avoids substrate slippage Brian J. Brown, Makoto Inagawa, Daniel Ramar, Alexander Lerner 2005-07-19 $46,519,000
6904637 Scrubber with sonic nozzle 2005-06-14 $12,100,000
6820298 Wafer scrubbing device having brush assembly and mounting assembly forming spherical joint John M. White, Ying Yu 2004-11-23 $17,815,000
6797074 Wafer edge cleaning method and apparatus Fred C. Redeker, Brian J. Brown 2004-09-28 $20,273,000
6728989 Labyrinth seal for bearing in brush mounting assembly for semiconductor wafer scrubber Alexander Lerner, John M. White, Shou-Sang Chang 2004-05-04 $25,663,000
6635157 Electro-chemical deposition system Yezdi Dordi, Donald Olgado, Ratson Morad, Peter Hey, Mark Denome +10 more 2003-10-21 $27,123,000
6599402 Electro-chemical deposition cell for face-up processing of single semiconductor substrates Yezdi Dordi, Joe Stevens, Roy Edwards, Bob Lowrance, Mark Denome 2003-07-29 $37,730,000
6582578 Method and associated apparatus for tilting a substrate upon entry for metal deposition Yezdi Dordi, Joseph Stevens 2003-06-24 $19,441,000
6551488 Segmenting of processing system into wet and dry areas H. Peter W. Hey, Mark Denome 2003-04-22 $40,104,000
6523553 Wafer edge cleaning method and apparatus Fred C. Redeker, Brian J. Brown 2003-02-25 $21,067,000
6520315 Gripper assembly Boris Govzman 2003-02-18 $21,472,000
6516816 Spin-rinse-dryer Anwar Husain, Brian J. Brown, David G. Andeen, Svetlana Sherman, John M. White +2 more 2003-02-11 $17,783,000
6474712 Gripper for supporting substrate in a vertical orientation Boris Govzman, Manoocher Birang, Anwar Husain 2002-11-05 $31,691,000
6469283 Method and apparatus for reducing thermal gradients within a substrate support Vincent E. Burkhart, Steven V. Sansoni, Anthony Chih-Tung Chan 2002-10-22 $32,970,000
6423636 Process sequence for improved seed layer productivity and achieving 3mm edge exclusion for a copper metalization process on semiconductor wafer Yezdi Dordi 2002-07-23 $29,082,000