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Michio Aruga — 15 Patents

Applied Materials: 14 patents #975 of 7,310Top 15%
PSPdf Solutions: 1 patents #76 of 143Top 55%
Chiba, JP: #634 of 6,266 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #307,048 of 4,157,543Top 8%
15 Patents All Time
Michio Aruga has been granted 15 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 1995 and the most recent in June 2023. Michio Aruga ranks #307,048 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 7.4%). Patent records list Michio Aruga in Chiba, JP.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1995 to 2023Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 1996.peak 41995: 1 patents19951996: 4 patents19961997: 2 patents19971998: 1 patents19981999: 2 patents19992000: 1 patents20002003: 2 patents20032006: 1 patents20062023: 1 patents2023

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–15 of 15 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
11687439 Automatic window generation for process trace Richard Burch, Kazuki Kunitoshi, Nobichika Akiya 2023-06-27 $15,677,000
7036453 Apparatus for reducing plasma charge damage for plasma processes Tetsuya Ishikawa, Alexandros T. Demos, Seon-Mee Cho, Feng Gao, Kaveh Niazi 2006-05-02 $17,089,000
6660662 Method of reducing plasma charge damage for plasma processes Tetsuya Ishikawa, Alexandros T. Demos, Seon-Mee Cho, Feng Gao, Kaveh Niazi 2003-12-09 $24,611,000
6632726 Film formation method and film formation apparatus Atsushi Tabata 2003-10-14 $38,083,000
6090706 Preconditioning process for treating deposition chamber prior to deposition of tungsten silicide coating on active substrates therein Susan Telford, Mei Chang 2000-07-18 $139,716,000
5997950 Substrate having uniform tungsten silicide film and method of manufacture Susan G. Telford, Meng Chu Tseng, Klaus-Dieter Rinnen 1999-12-07 $146,217,000
5877086 Metal planarization using a CVD wetting film 1999-03-02 $31,446,000
5779848 Corrosion-resistant aluminum nitride coating for a semiconductor chamber window 1998-07-14 $20,241,000
5688331 Resistance heated stem mounted aluminum susceptor assembly Atsunobu Ohkura, Akihiko Saito, Kenji Suzuki, Kenichi Taguchi, Dale R. DuBois +1 more 1997-11-18 $45,592,000
5643633 Uniform tungsten silicide films produced by chemical vapor depostiton Susan G. Telford, Meng Chu Tseng, Moshe Eizenberg 1997-07-01 $28,802,000
5558910 Uniform tungsten silicide films produced by chemical vapor deposition Susan G. Telford, Meng Chu Tseng, Moshe Eizenberg 1996-09-24 $34,258,000
5510297 Process for uniform deposition of tungsten silicide on semiconductor wafers by treatment of susceptor having aluminum nitride surface thereon with tungsten silicide after cleaning of susceptor Susan Telford, Mei Chang 1996-04-23 $50,456,000
5500249 Uniform tungsten silicide films produced by chemical vapor deposition Susan G. Telford, Meng Chu Tseng 1996-03-19 $89,986,000
5482749 Pretreatment process for treating aluminum-bearing surfaces of deposition chamber prior to deposition of tungsten silicide coating on substrate therein Susan Telford, Mei Chang 1996-01-09 $27,163,000
5456757 Susceptor for vapor deposition Atsunobu Ohkuba, Akihiko Saito, Katsumasa Anan 1995-10-10 $32,005,000