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Nicholas A. Wiswell — 12 Patents

Applied Materials: 12 patents #1,128 of 7,310Top 20%
Sunnyvale, CA: #2,336 of 14,302 inventorsTop 20%
California: #51,404 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #396,045 of 4,157,543Top 10%
12 Patents All Time
Nicholas A. Wiswell has been granted 12 US patents while listed as an inventor at Applied Materials. The first was granted in 2022 and the most recent in December 2025. Nicholas A. Wiswell ranks #396,045 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 9.5%). Patent records list Nicholas A. Wiswell in Sunnyvale, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2022 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2025.peak 52022: 2 patents20222023: 4 patents20232024: 1 patents20242025: 5 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–12 of 12 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12491603 Passive acoustic monitoring and acoustic sensors for chemical mechanical polishing Sohrab Pourmand, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Thomas H. Osterheld, Boguslaw A. Swedek 2025-12-09
12479062 Determining substrate orientation with acoustic signals Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian, Thomas H. Osterheld 2025-11-25
12403560 Determining substrate precession with acoustic signals Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian, Thomas H. Osterheld 2025-09-02
12257665 Machine vision as input to a CMP process control algorithm Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Thomas H. Osterheld 2025-03-25
12233505 Polishing system with capacitive shear sensor Chih Chung Chou, Dominic J. Benvegnu 2025-02-25
12020159 Training spectrum generation for machine learning system for spectrographic monitoring Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian, Thomas H. Osterheld 2024-06-25 $57,214,000
11701749 Monitoring of vibrations during chemical mechanical polishing Boguslaw A. Swedek, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Chih Chung Chou, Thomas H. Osterheld, Jeonghoon Oh 2023-07-18 $58,990,000
11660722 Polishing system with capacitive shear sensor Chih Chung Chou, Dominic J. Benvegnu 2023-05-30 $32,229,000
11651207 Training spectrum generation for machine learning system for spectrographic monitoring Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian, Thomas H. Osterheld 2023-05-16 $64,199,000
11577356 Machine vision as input to a CMP process control algorithm Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian, Dominic J. Benvegnu, Boguslaw A. Swedek, Thomas H. Osterheld 2023-02-14 $35,617,000
11507824 Training spectrum generation for machine learning system for spectrographic monitoring Benjamin Cherian, Jun Qian, Thomas H. Osterheld 2022-11-22 $48,755,000
11478894 Polishing fluid additive concentration measurement apparatus and methods related thereto — 2022-10-25 $42,554,000

Frequent Collaborators

Thomas H. Osterheld9 shared
Benjamin Cherian7 shared
Dominic J. Benvegnu6 shared
Jun Qian6 shared
Boguslaw A. Swedek4 shared
Chih Chung Chou3 shared

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